Description
Release Date Friday 17th April 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
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 upcoming album The World Is to Dig
(due April 14th, 2026 from Idlewild Recordings), 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.
CD Tracks: 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
LP Mustard Vinyl Tracks: 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 / What the Cat
Dragged In / They Might Be Feral / Get Down / New Wave Will Never Die / Overnight
Sensation (Hit Record) / Character Flaw / Hit The Ground / What You Get / Slow / In
the Dead Mall
LP Black Vinyl Tracks: 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 / What the Cat
Dragged In / They Might Be Feral / Get Down / New Wave Will Never Die / Overnight
Sensation (Hit Record) / Character Flaw / Hit The Ground / What You Get / Slow / In
the Dead Mall
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