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Hitchcock's lyrics tend to include surrealism, comedic elements, characterisations of English eccentrics, and melancholy depictions of everyday life. His themes include the eternal contingencies of existence — namely: death, sex, and eating. (Recognising these themes, he released an EP in 2007 called Sex, Food, Death and Tarantulas.)\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was signed to two major American labels (A\u0026amp;M Records, then Warner Brothers) over the course of the 1980s and '90s, but mainstream success has been limited. 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