They Might Be Giants – The World Is To Dig

Limited yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. 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, TMBG moves by ricochet. On their album The World Is to Dig, the multi- Grammy- winning duo continue 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 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.

1. Back in Los Angeles
2. Wu-Tang
3. Sleep's Older Sister
4. Je N'en Ai Pas
5. Outside Brain
6. Let's Fall in Lava
7. Telescope
8. Garbage in
9. Get Down
10. New Wave Will Never Die
11. Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)
12. Character Flaw
13. Hit the Ground
14. What You Get
15. Slow
16. In the Dead Mall
17. What the Cat Dragged in
18. They Might Be Feral

Label: Idlewild Recordings

Catalog: 200

Genre: Rock