It was emotionally intense and dramatic with a moderately aggressive sound. It had maybe a kind of Beatles' psychedelic feel but for various reasons I'd be very surprised if the song wasn't recent. Minor key, I'm pretty certain the melody leaned on the 7th of a minor chord or the 2nd of a major chord at some point. The melody and harmony struck me more strongly than the rhythm and groove. As I recall the production had something of a wall-of-sound style. It was guitar-oriented but it was the kind of song where any kinds of tricks might have been used in the production.
I did look it up with Shazam but I remember only a couple things. (Sue me, I'm over 40.) The name of either the band or the song was about 15 characters in length, and was either a compound word or a pair of words, the first slightly longer than the second. You know how you can often tell from the names which is the song and which is the band without having heard of either before? I couldn't do that in this case. I had to look carefully at the information Shazam gave to make the distinction.
Should have written it down.
