In 1991, Come released the 12-inch single "Car", a seven-minute epic in the post-punk, blues-noir style of The Birthday Party, These Immortal Souls, and The Gun Club, on Sub Pop.

Spin called the band "ferocious, bending a head-on adrenaline rush into a staggering blues crawl, churning noise-damage into aching melody, and letting it fall apart", adding that Come was "poised on the brink of the big time.

Come received praise from Dinosaur Jr.'s lead singer J. Mascis, Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould, Chavez's guitarist Matt Sweeney, and Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain,[6][7] among many others, with Indigo Girls' Amy Ray lauding Zedek's voice, describing it as an "old Marlene Dietrich film"[8][9] Cell guitarist Jerry DiRienzo praised their ability to "[bridge] the masculine and feminine.

The next album, the short Near-Life Experience, was recorded with a number of different musicians, including drummer Mac McNeilly of the Jesus Lizard and Bundy K. Brown of Tortoise.

In 1998, Come released the 66-minute Gently, Down The Stream, which mirrored the energy of Near Life Experience but featured a more fluent integrated soundscape and included the stand-out track "Saints Around My Neck.

[13] In 2010 and 2011, the original line-up of Come sporadically re-united to play a number of shows,[14][15][16] including a set at the TraniWreck festival in Cambridge, Massachusetts, featuring songs exclusively from its first two albums and the "Car" EP.