Book They Might Be Giants

• 1 Synopsis for Latecomers 02:25
• 2 Moonbeam Rays 02:51
• 3 I Broke My Own Rule 03:22
• 4 Brontosaurus 03:04
• 5 Lord Snowden 02:25
• 6 If Day for Winnipeg 02:13
• 7 I Can't Remember the Dream 03:12
• 8 Drown the Clown 02:41
• 9 Darling, The Dose 02:15
• 10 I Lost Thursday 03:14
• 11 Part of You Wants to Believe Me 02:58
• 12 Super Cool 02:11
• 13 Wait Actually Yeah No 03:20
• 14 Quit the Circus 02:52
• 15 Less Than One 02:59
• Total Runtime 42:02

Info zu Book

BOOK is the twenty-third studio album by They Might Be Giants. BOOK the book is a collaboration between They Might Be Giants, photographer Brian Karlsson and Paul Sahre. The lyrics in the book are selected from the new album, I Like Fun, and My Murdered Remains; all set in layouts that might be best described as concrete poetry. Paul Sahre actually typed up all the lyrics manually on an IBM Selectric typewriter from the early 1970s.

The band intended to follow up their late 2019 studio sessions with two more weeks of recording at Reservoir Studios in April 2020 to finish the album, but its production timeline, as well as the band's live tour, were halted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The two weeks in April were intended for completing then-unfinished songs, recording vocals and sequencing the album's track list. Unable to visit the studio, John and John continued writing new songs from home in the months that followed, ultimately leading them to swap out around six tracks intended for the album for newly written ones.[7] One such new song, "I Lost Thursday," was released a year ahead of the album in October 2020. The song featured a bassline recorded from home by John Linnell and was entirely self-produced by the band remotely, making it the only track on the album not produced by Pat Dillett.

In December 2020, They Might Be Giants were able to return to Reservoir Studios, clad with protective masks, to finish recording the album. Over two weeks, the band quickly recorded the remainder of the album in one room while Pat Dillett did final mixes in another, allowing them to do "a month of studio work over the course of the two weeks." During that time, the band posted musical snippets and photographs to social media, including a photo featuring frequent collaborator and horn player Dan Levine.

On March 18, 2021, pre-orders opened up on the new official They Might Be Giants store, along with a new fall 2021 release window. As the year went on, more preview tracks were released from the album including "I Broke My Own Rule", "Super Cool", and "Part Of You Wants To Believe Me", as well as pages from the album's accompanying book featuring new lyrics from upcoming songs. On August 10, alongside the music video for "I Can't Remember The Dream", the band sent out a press release for the album that was covered by publications such as Rolling Stone and BrooklynVegan, revealing the album's tracklisting. In the PR, John Linnell described some of BOOK's songs as "humorously germane to the catastrophe going on around us," and Flansburgh corroborated days later on Tumblr that about a "half dozen" tracks from the album "were made from scratch during the pandemic".

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