Fortnight
un-recalling the memory you can't drink away
“I was a functioning alcoholic / 'Til nobody noticed my new aesthetic”
“I wish I could un-recall / How we almost had it all” — loml
Community readers connect loml's wish to "un-recall" the relationship with Fortnight's functioning-alcoholic line: in both, the speaker reaches for a way to dull or erase a memory she cannot otherwise lay down.
envy of others' intact relationships
“Your wife waters flowers, I wanna kill her”
“Soon they'll go home to their husbands Smug 'cause they know they can trust him” — How Did It End?
Community readers parallel the smug wives who "go home to their husbands" with Fortnight's "Your wife waters flowers, I wanna kill her": the same envious sideways glance at other people's secure domesticity, surfacing at both ends of the album. In one song the narrator is the object of the gossips' smugness; in the other she is the one watching a settled life she cannot have.