John Darnielle's songs have always dwelled on one or a combination of five subjects, relationship conflicts, flood, water, pre-Colombian Mexico mythology and talking animals. This record conjures paranoid visions of a couple permanently on the cusp of divorce who have remained drunk for so long, they're not sure of much else beyond the mutually destructive urge that holds their house together.

 

A1 Tallahassee 4:42

A2 First Few Desperate Hours 3:03

A3 Southwood Plantation Road 2:45

A4 Game Shows Touch Our Lives 3:48

A5 The House That Dripped Blood 2:53

A6 Idylls Of The King 3:32

A7 No Children 2:46

B1 See America Right 1:54

B2 Peacocks 3:44

B3 International Small Arms Traffic Blues 2:50

B4 Have To Explode 3:21

B5 Old College Try 2:52

B6 Oceanographer's Choice 4:08

B7 Alpha Rats Nest 2:10