Last You Heard of Me

Its tangential lyrical style was inspired by the work of Mark Kozelek, and based on a sense of ennui and lethargy with drunken nights.

Its music video was directed by Christopher Good and depicts a Clue-style dinner party gone wrong at a mansion called "Joyce Manor".

"Last You Heard of Me" shares songwriting credits between all of the members of Joyce Manor at that time, though it was primarily written by frontman Barry Johnson.

[9] Outside, he locks eyes with a muse—perhaps implied to be a previous lover[10]—and as the instrumental builds, Johnson recounts in flashes the rest of the evening: "Start to finish sad defeat / Shivering, lying next to you / And that's the last you heard of me."

[12] Anna Gaca from Spin described the clip: "Something evil is afoot, and the baroque salon quickly devolves into a Clue-style whodunnit bloodbath.

"[9] At Stereogum, Collin Robinson wrote: "Joyce Manor have a way of communicating some devastating sentiments with a subtlety that makes for sneaky potency.

"[3] Quinn Moreland, for Pitchfork, complimented the finale's "would-be epiphany": "In every two-minute story, the stakes are high, and this pushes each track to discover some sort of clarity by the conclusion.