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They Might Be Giants Drop New LP

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS The World Is to Dig LP Out Today, Share Focus Track + Visualizer ‘Get Down’

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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS The World Is to Dig LP Out Today, Share Focus Track + Visualizer ‘Get Down’

“[They Might Be Giants] are practitioners of the ancient art form of popcraft, constructing tight, clever confections to ensure the hooks are delivered cleanly and efficiently.” ★★★★ – MOJO

“Perfect pop music can come from anywhere and can go anywhere. They Might Be Giants have demonstrated this for a quarter century…” – The New Yorker

“From their earliest days as a two-man operation built on drum machines, accordion, and a kind of conceptual mischief, John Flansburgh and John Linnell treated pop music less like a tradition to honor than a system to test. Genres weren’t lanes; they were materials.” – Chronogram

“One of rock’s longest and most prodigious partnerships” – Consequence

Brooklyn legends They Might Be Giants have released their highly anticipated new album, The World Is to Dig, available in all formats at TMBGshop.com and on streaming services. An exclusive 180-gram vinyl colour variant will be available at indie retail shops this Friday, April 17. The band’s first full-length since 2021’s Grammy-nominated BOOK, the album stands as a testament to the duo’s undying creative momentum, blending sharp songwriting and real experimentation into a refreshingly original, 18-song collection that showcases the duo’s timeless originality.

Alongside the release, They Might Be Giants have shared the album’s focus track, “Get Down.” The unstoppable dancefloor-filler finds the band pounding out huge musical hooks to a cautionary lyrical mantra: some uninvited guests have an urgent two-word message: Get down. The accompanying video is directed by graphic design superstar Paul Sahre.

They Might Be Giants treat the entire history of popular music as a trampoline rather than a rulebook. Like two pinballs pinging off of each other through musical murals stretching into a giddy ether, They Might Be Giants move by ricochet. On The World Is to Dig, the multi-

Grammy-winning duo continues bouncing through the pop multiverse, digging into whatever they find with playful zeal. John Linnell and John Flansburgh continue to fire ideas off one another like particles in a perpetual motion experiment, each collision producing a new angle, a new joke, a new melodic left turn, resulting in tracks packed with esoteric references, mischievous details, and left-field detours. Untethered from trends, immune to nostalgia, and equally ready to draw from Tin Pan Alley theatrics and contemporary pop culture references, The World Is to Dig is the sound of a band very much in motion; not chasing relevance but generating it on their own terms.

That sense of motion is no accident. For Flansburgh, the freedom of They Might Be Giants has always come from refusing to plant a flag in any single approach. “There’s a tremendous advantage to being in a project that is open-ended,” he says. “We can do something that’s straight-ahead punk or dig into Count Basie, and that keeps things zesty. The people with their arms folded in the back row might wonder, ‘Do these guys still have it?’ To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure we ever ‘had it’ but the truth is, right now, we’ve got something new.”

 “I think both John and I are kind of professionally dysmorphic,” Flansburgh continues. “When I think of rock culture, I don’t think of our band as having any place in it. I never think about where we land in the world.” The album’s gestation followed a similar creative pattern: each John would workshop ideas in their home studio only to bring the best ones into a fluid musical conversation, at which point they became inextricably They Might Be Giants-ified. At that point in the process, Flansburgh adds, The World Is To Dig gained some added fluidity. “This album, like our first album, was all made by the same people at the same time in the same place. It has its own musical universe,” he says. “Even as songs pull apart and get further afield, it became naturally cohesive. Our most successful records hang together in very natural ways, and this album has that continuity.” Linnell agrees, noting that the duo’s penchant for brevity aids in that strength: “Very early on, we admired bands that had short songs that said what they had to say and finished. There was this movement in the mid-20th century to write confessional poems full of very specific personal emotion, but I want to write about geostationary orbits. That would be an interesting poem for me. And speaking for Flansburgh, there’s something beautifully opaque and elliptical about his recent lyrical ideas.”

“We do this for ourselves. We’re trying to make the kind of album that we would be interested in,” Linnell says. In the end, the project acts as a thesis: a duo of funny, intelligent, creative musicians still primarily guided by genuine affection for songs, ideas, and moments that move them. On The World Is to Dig, that instinct remains They Might Be Giants’ greatest constant: proof that curiosity, love, and joy are more sustaining than any trend, and that chasing those emotions naturally will always result in new discoveries.