The Manchester-based band cruush leans into a very nineteen-nineties groove on their new single. Even its title, “Rupert Giles,” casts back to that bygone age when gloomy music could simultaneously be somehow dappled with sunshine sweetness. This could definitely be the closing number of a good night at the Bronze.

The tracks opens with a spare guitar riff that could be scraped off of Live Through This like a loose decal. Then it swoops into a dreamy, fuzzy pop song that’s starts in the ominous clouds and is lofted yet higher by Amber Warren’s honey-tinged vocals, even as she intones somber lyrics such as “Now that I’m older/ I don’t feel much wiser/ I just feel frozen/ Waiting for the earth to swallow me whole.” Put on the headphones and drift into the song’s grand, gnarled beauty.