Twenty years into their duo's existence, John Linnell and John Flansburgh seem as though they could keep They Might Be Giants going for another twenty. They may not be as manic and frantic as they were when the indie pair's low-budget, high-whimsy weirdness cracked MTV in the late Eighties and early...
2004 RS:
New-wave smart alecs who at times sound like jin-gle writers run amok, John Flansburgh and John Linnell -- the guys who Might Be Giants -- specialize in songs that are relentlessly catchy and hopelessly cheesy, full of giddy non sequiturs, cartoonish com-binations of instruments, and hooks that leave listeners feeling like a freshly landed trout. Working with cheap drum machines and overdubs inste...
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