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.

A1. Back In Los Angeles
A2. Wu-Tang
A3. Sleep's Older Sister
A4. Je N'en Ai Pas
A5. Outside Brain
A6. Let's Fall in Lava
A7. Telescope
A8. Garbage In
A9. Get Down
B1. New Wave Will Never Die
B2. Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)
B3. Character Flaw
B4. Hit the Ground
B5. What You Get
B6. Slow
B7. In the Dead Mall
B8. What The Cat Dragged In
B9. They Might Be Feral