So I’ve been listening to a lot of Cursive’s Domestica lately. It’s one of those records that just seems to go through frequent cycles of high-rotation. This time around, however, I paid attention more to the themes of the record and noticed more than a couple of parallels, so I decided to figure out once and for all what the common threads were in these songs and share them with you. The following table illustrates my findings:
| The Moon/Lunar Rape | Phone-Throwing | Holes/Digging | Water/Swimming/Drowning | “Pretty Baby” | |
| 1. The Casualty | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| 3. Shallow Means, Deep Ends | 1 | 3 | |||
| 6. The Lament of Pretty Baby | 1 | 2 | |||
| 8. The Radiator Hums | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
As you can see “The Radiator Hums” exemplifies the most of all of these common threads. I should do this for all of their albums (that is neither a threat, nor a promise).