Heretic Pride (Bonus Track Version)

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After three albums in which he used his songwriting gifts to examine himself, John Darnielle again turns his eye outward, here penning tunes about hopeless urchins, spies from China, a girl in a Marduk t-shirt, a young father, a kid in a Marcus Allen jersey, H.P. Lovecraft in Brooklyn, and a reggae singer with a bullet hole in his chest.