Even people who don't think they know the music of They Might Be Giants almost definitely know at least a song or two, especially considering founding members (and childhood buddies) John Flansburgh and John Linnell wrote the super-catchy and Grammy-winning theme song for Malcolm in the Middle, "Boss of Me," and their 1990 album Flood (featuring "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Instanbul (Not Constantinople)") went platinum. (Plus, parents are more than likely familiar with the alt-rockers' super popular children's music albums.)
Thankfully for fans and new listeners alike, They Might Be Giants (TMBG) have been busy making new music, too. Following the recent release of their Eyeball EP, TMBG just announced a new LP scheduled for release in April called The World Is To Dig (their first TMBG album since 2021's BOOK), and fans can already hear and download the first single: "Wu-Tang."
Commenters on the Instagram post announcing the new music were beyond excited to hear the news.
"THIS IS KEEPING ME GOING," declared one person, with a second adding, "OH MY GOD ITS HAPPENING."
"I can't wait for the whole album to come out! This song is amazingly good. Thank you for bringing some joy into this world!!!" raved another fan.
How TMBG developed their 'obtuse, snobby art rock sensibility'
In a 2024 interview with SPIN, Flansburgh opened up about the evolution of TMBG's unique sound.
“We were high school kids writing quirky and idiosyncratic songs. But there were antecedents, breadcrumbs there that would kind of lead to where we ended up," Flansburgh recalled. “We did a cover of ‘Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)’ by Yoko Ono, but we were both singing in Rod Serling voices…apropos of what, I’m not exactly sure.
“Alternative rock was barely even a thing in Brooklyn," Flansburgh continued. "I would hear about all these bands like Green On Red or the Pandoras; I’d read about them in SPIN, but I would never hear them. There was no college radio we heard that was playing that stuff. Where we lived, we didn’t get MTV. Most of my ’80s and ’90 was neck-deep in hip hop."
Flansburgh went on to say that Linnell had been in a band called the Mundanes, "a big college rock band in Providence, R.I. that was very successful on the Brown campus."
"They wanted to have careers in music, but over time, a sense of gloom kind of came over them. And that informed us professionally; we thought, ‘If we do something that seems interesting to us, we will never regret however much time we invest in it.’ And that led us to an aesthetic that combines our sense of humor and our obtuse, snobby art rock sensibility," he explained.
One thing's for sure: What TMBG does is anything but "mundane."
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