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.

Tracklist:

Back in Los Angeles
Wu-Tang
Sleep's Older Sister
Je N'en Ai Pas
Outside Brain
Let's Fall in Lava
Telescope
Garbage In
Get Down
New Wave Will Never Die
Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)
Character Flaw
Hit the Ground
What You Get
Slow
In the Dead Mall
What the Cat Dragged In
They Might Be Feral

UPC: 738582017023
Label: Idlewild Recordings
Release Date: 4.17.26
Format: CD

They Might Be Giants - The World Is To Dig (CD)