They Might Be Giants Announce Exclusive Live Album “Beast Of Horns”
They Might Be Giants Announce Exclusive Live Album
Beast of Horns Out October 25
Full-Length Album Only Available via the TMBG Store
The band return to the UK in November for ‘An Evening With They Might Be Giants: Flood, BOOK and Beyond’ 2024 UK Tour!
Tickets + dates available here
“They have their rhythm, their aesthetic, and their show all down to a science.
It’s a fantastic thing to watch a band enjoying themselves by doing exactly what they want to be doing.
It’s what keeps fans like me coming back over and over again.” - Consequence
“Catch them if you can — their live shows always deliver.” - USA Today
“John Linnell and John Flansburgh are one of rock’s all-time most quixotic successes” - SPIN
“Kudos to They Might Be Giants for continuing to mix things up.
Beloved hits and countless deep cuts? Two nights weren’t enough.” - Milwaukee Record
Music legends They Might Be Giants have returned with the announcement of a new live album Beast of Horns, set for release on October 25. Culled from recent touring, this new set of horn-oriented tracks captures the musical glory of TMBG’s expanded live format. Long celebrated for their electrifying shows, here we find the band joined by a virtual murderers row of horn talent with Stan Harrison on sax, Dan Levine on trombone and euphonium, and trumpet superstar Mark Pender (familiar to all from Conan O’Brien’s band). The album boasts 13 tracks includingaudience favorites “Doctor Worm,” “Museum of Idiots,” “The Darlings of Lumberland.”
TMBG’s Idlewild Recordings will not be releasing Beast of Horns on streaming platforms as a full-length album. Rather it will be an exclusive vinyl record, download, and compact disc available from the TMBG Storeand at brick-and-mortar record shops. Pre-orders of the album are available now. Music streamers can enjoy a 4-song sampler at the service of their choice.
Also newly available is the 7-inch 45 vinyl featuring “Lazy,” TMBG’s recording of Irving Berlin’s classic 1924 song made in celebration of WNYC’s 100th anniversary as part of the station’s Public Song Project. The 7-inch is backed with the track “Buckle Down, Winsocki” and is available for purchase here.
The band are also returning to the UK this November 2024 with their ‘An Evening With They Might Be Giants: Flood, BOOK and Beyond’ UK tour. Nine of the twelve dates across the country have already sold out and tickets are going fast for the remaining 3rd of November Shepherds Bush Empire London date and Southampton and Belfast shows, so don’t wait to book!
The shows will include two sets which span early favourites to songs from their new, Grammy-nominated album ‘BOOK’. TMBG’s superlative live band has now expanded to eight, with a three-piece horn section including trumpet virtuoso Mark Pender from the Conan show. This once-in-a-lifetime show is guaranteed to delight!
Tickets for ‘An Evening With They Might Be Giants: Flood, BOOK and Beyond’ shows are available here
Vinyl Mania! #
Vinyl interest in the band reached historic peaks last year, and to meet the demand the band’s Idlewild Recordings imprint’s new release program is in full swing. With more than a dozen re-issues, new albums, and vinyl-exclusive releases, Idlewild has pressed Flood and Apollo 18 picture discs alongside lovingly-made reissues of Mink Car, Lincoln, The Spine, fan-favorite Join Us, and the long-awaited vinyl release of Long Tall Weekend, the first digital-only release by a major artist back in August 1999 in the fledgling days of the internet. Up next is the horn-oriented live collection Beast of Horns, set for release on October 25. Expand your collection of TMBG vinyl right here.
They Might Be Giants started with a Dial-A-Song service, powered by a lone phone machine out of their Brooklyn apartments. Since then, they have made 23 albums, and have secretly infiltrated your TV with original themes and incidental music to countless shows and commercials. Fans can enjoy They Might Be Giants’ FREE Dial-A-Song smartphone app(iPhone / Android) which adds a new song every day.