If you do something you’re not particularly committed to or interested in, if it gets successful, that would be a nightmare, right?” What you don’t want to wind up doing is making something that appeals to other people more than yourself. “You form your identity,” Linnell says, “by intuitively coming up with something you would like. While one may not expect a band that has been working since 1981 to release a new book almost as performance art, that’s exactly what They Might Be Giants decided to do. So, the band employed both a photographer (Brian Karlsson) and someone to execute the book’s typography and design (Paul Sahre) and thus the cornucopia of images and text was made. Flansburgh, Linnell says, wanted to create and release something that was tangible, tactile. We put them in a pile and figure out, ‘What’s this going to be?’ We’ll arrange the album based on what we’ve got.”įor Linnell and the band’s other co-founder, John Flansburgh, the work is intuitive-just as it was when they made waves their now-infamous “ Dial-A-Song.” The same went for the new 144-page book. “This is how each album takes shape, we just try and write a bunch of good songs and try not to write the same song we wrote last time. “We often do not plan things out very rigorously in the beginning,” he says.
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This is especially true when it comes to They Might Be Giants’ new LP and accompanying tome, both of which are named BOOK, and both are out this Friday.
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For the band-which has released around two-dozen albums, recorded popular television show theme songs and impacted a globe of music fans, taking its time and remaining true to what makes it tick uniquely is paramount. John Linnell, co-founder for the Grammy Award-winning alternative rock group, They Might Be Giants, knows that process is as important as product, if not more so.