They Might Be Giants Are Back with new single “Outside Brain”

They Might Be Giants have never been easy to pin down, and “Outside Brain” isn’t about to change that. The new single from the Brooklyn duo’s forthcoming LP The World Is to Dig is a thunderous, coiled thing — John Flansburgh’s vocals riding on top of Dan Miller’s rip curl guitar and Danny Weinkauf’s fluid bass lines like a man trying to outrun his own thoughts.

The song is about panic. Not the word-panic, the feeling-panic — that nightmare sensation of being chased by something you can’t name. Marty Beller’s relentless drumming seals it into something claustrophobic and propulsive at once. Flansburgh cites the Bobby Fuller Four as a touchstone, that rare garage-band electricity that’s hard to fake and harder to find.

The World Is to Dig is the band’s first full-length since the Grammy-nominated BOOK in 2021, and it’s an 18-song statement — bold, restless, and completely their own. It lands April 14 in all formats at TMBGshop.com and on streaming services, with an exclusive 180-gram color vinyl variant hitting indie retail on April 17. Pre-order it below.

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1“Back in Los Angeles”

2“Wu-Tang”

3“Sleep’s Older Sister”

4“Je N’en Ai Pas”

5“Outside Brain”

6“Let’s Fall in Lava”

7“Telescope”

8“Garbage In”

9“Get Down”

10“New Wave Will Never Die”

11“Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)”

12“Character Flaw”

13“Hit The Ground”

14“What You Get”

15“Slow”

16“In the Dead Mall”

17“What the Cat Dragged In”

18“They Might Be Feral”