Claude says:Nine Days caught that late-90s moment when alternative rock was allowed to be genuinely catchy, and The Madding Crowd landed right there in 2000 with the kind of hook-heavy production that felt both clever and immediate. You've spun "Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)" across a decade—first in 2012 and still circling back in 2023—which tracks; that song has the staying power of something that lodges itself early and never quite leaves.