"The hosts of Pharoah went in with his horsemen and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them: but the children of Israel went on dry land. And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron ...

'Drunk on the floor, with hurl in my hair," begins the final song on Royal City's second album, Alone at the Microphone. "Dank is the air of death and loathing," says another, and, "I've worried here ...