| · The cover features an image of a praying mantis – the females of that species devour their mates, don’t they?
Although I’m no connoisseur of breakup albums, a couple of them have counselled me through various romantic trainwrecks over the years.
Alas, despite the denial inherent in the title of The Bigger Lovers’ This Affair Never Happened… and Here are Eleven Songs About It, the record’s chirpy, Redd Kross-inspired pop hooks are neither bitter nor melancholic enough to displace Chris Isaak’s Forever Blue or The Mountain Goats’ Tallahassee as my teary-beer soundtracks of choice.
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