On May 27, They Might Be Giants will release a 10-year compilation of their material titled Idlewild. The record will contain 17 songs and be neither a "best of" nor rarities, rather a compilation that best captures their work from the past ten years.
The band has released 16 studio albums in thirty years, including last year's Nanobots.
When I first heard these guys in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s, there wasn’t really a name for this. Now, I guess it would be called indie pop. The band, led by songwriters John Linnell and John Flansburgh, has long been on the quirky side with a touch of novelty, but it’s their strong sense of melody and that … Read more
In 2002, Bob Fairfoul walked out of Idlewild with a rain of misdirected punches. From that moment, it seemed impossible that the next album would be anything other than either a return to an older, easier sound, or a radical change. When bassist Gavin Fox from Irish band Turn and long-term tour guitarist Allan Stewart were drafted into the new … Read more
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