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.
TRACK LISTING
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. What The Cat Dragged In
10. They Might Be Feral
11. Get Down
12. New Wave Will Never Die
13. Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)
14. Character Flaw
15. Hit The Ground
16. What You Get
17. Slow
18. In The Dead Mall
