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Another idiom; to “have a bee in your bonnet” is “to keep talking about something again and again because you think it is important, especially something that other people do not think is important.” In the context of this song, it refers to his affections. He doesn’t blame her however, because she is just the next victim of his hopeless romanticism.

Interestingly enough, AJJ’s vocalist is Sean Bonnette. As many, many of Bonnette’s songs bemoan the stress of love, this line is a statement about his constant need to sing about it. This idea is brought up again on Knife Man’s “Distance”.

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We hear the plural “cancers” in another AJJ song, “Brave As a Noun”. Here, though, the plural is quite literal, as human papillomavirus is linked to a number of different cancers, including lung cancer.

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This interview is sampled from a five-part news segment named Suffer the Little Children. It was produced by NBC 10, Philadelphia’s local station, in 1968. The segment exposed the abhorrent conditions within the Pennhurst State School, which was at the time a home for the mentally ill and epileptic that remained open until 1987.

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The opening track of Deafheaven’s 2013 album Sunbather, a grandiose prologue to an album that blends post-rock, black metal, and shoegaze influences.

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The eponymous final track of These New Puritans' Field of Reeds features basso profundo Adrian Peacock and the sounds of a live Harris hawk in a beautifully saddening 6-and-a-half minute dirge.

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Clarke has stated that this means it’s a barrier between himself and the one he loves, as if making skin contact would only further aid pain.

This could also refer to fetishism. Clarke has been seen wearing leather fetish gloves at Deafheaven shows, doing strange things like licking them and sucking his fingers.

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“V (Island Song)” is the centerpiece of These New Puritans' Field of Reeds, a 9-minute opus that features a driving piano/synth hook and beat.

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Track five of These New Puritans' Field of Reeds serves as an intermediate between the two movements of the album. It directly follows the centerpiece “V (Island Song).” Featuring a lumbering, unsettling sound (complete with a horror soundtrack children’s choir,) “Spiral” appropriately bisects the album.

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The seventh track on These New Puritan’s Field of Reeds is a somber duet between bandleader Jack Barnett and Portuguese jazz vocalist Elisa Rodrigues.

Also featured is Adrian Peacock, an English basso profundo, who, in the beginning of the song, hits his lowest note.

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“Organ Eternal” is the sixth track on These New Puritans third album Field of Reeds. It is one of the more conventional songs on the album, with a repeating synth line and lush instrumentation.

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