13 long years of creative dormancy is more than enough time to make you never look a gift horse in the mouth when it presents itself to you. This holiday season, Thursday are reminding us of that with “White Bikes”. It’s only the second new song following this past spring’s “Application For Release From The Dream” since the post-hardcore heroes initially went their separate ways after their final (to date) album in 2011’s No Devolución before reuniting toward the tail end of last decade. All those years gone by don’t change much of the atmosphere within the pitch black skies they breathe in the air. That’s all too symbolic on this listen, a haunting look-back from vocalist Geoff Rickly’s past of a friend who disappeared one day and was never seen from again, eliciting familiar themes of broken memories from our youth and the lasting impact they hold on our current selves. Building over cascading layers of guitars with surgent hooks, it runs tangent to the dramatic, delicate sonic walls of post-hardcore grandeur that was their War All the Time and A City by the Lights Divided eras. “I’m waiting for you to come along again (Turn the radio up or how will I ever know?) / Why am I still waiting for you to come around again? (The radio’s on, how do you turn it down?,” he sings. As always, Thursday’s somber reveries come with the heaviest emotions that transcend linear timelines.

Thursday’s “White Bikes” single is available now.