Release Date:04/08/2008;Notes: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.;Track List:1. Tallahassee;2. First Few Desperate Hours;3. Southwood Plantation Road;4. Games Shows Touch Our Lives;5. House That Dripped Blood;6. Idylls of the King;7. No Children;8. See America Right;9. Peacocks;10. International Small Arms Traffic Blues;11. Have to Explode;12. Old College Try;13. Oceanographer's Choice;14. Alpha Rats Nest