When we try to understand the message behind it, the album Drifter by Wild Nothing investigates two main themes which are isolation and escapism through its central metaphor of drifting which represents a character's wish to flee from reality and find comfort through the eyes of another person. The song Drifter uses its lyrics to express six main emotional states which are solitude and angst and despair and heartbreak and reflection. The song shows how people need to stay apart from others while they experience deep feelings of missing someone. The lyrics contain no explicit language, violence, sexual content, or drug use. The themes present abstract ideas which remain suitable for all age groups because they lack any content that would be deemed inappropriate for children.