Add Date: July 19
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Album: Join Us
Label: Idlewild/Rounder
Genre: Rock, pop
Comments: By any measure, They Might Be Giants' music ought to have grown stale by now, right? After all, John Linnell and John Flansburgh have been churning out records full of their endearingly weird, or perhaps weirdly endearing, pop for almost three decades now. But what lies beneath the songs about underwater bovine civilizations, obscure American presidents and tabloid-esque scientific specimens is truly great songcraft, and this cycle is what makes TMBG work: the oddball lyrics stand up because they're grounded in good music, and the music remains interesting because it's so wonderfully strange.
Join Us, the band's 15th studio LP, is no exception. And the guys still have a few tricks up their sleeves, like isolating each of the two vocals in a separate (mono) channel on "Spoiler Alert" or stepping back into the '60s on a Byrds-influenced number ("Old Pine Box"). Check out tracks 7, 4, 3, 16 and 14.
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