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Phone Power
Rock · 2016 · 18 tracks · 45m

Phone Power

They Might Be Giants

Eighteen tracks of hyper-literate power pop and neurotic art-rock. A dense collection of two-minute vignettes exploring psychological quirks and existential puzzles.

March 8, 2016 · Idlewild Recordings

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A restless, intellectually curious energy that balances bright pop melodies with neurotic introspection.

Tracklist · 18 Tracks · 45m
01
Apophenia
2:34
02
I Love You for Psychological Reasons
3:01
03
To a Forest
2:10
04
I Am Alone
2:29
05
Say Nice Things About Detroit
2:42
06
Trouble Awful Devil Evil
3:29
07
ECNALUBMA
2:56
08
Daylight
1:52
09
Sold My Mind to the Kremlin
2:03
10
It Said Something
3:13
11
Impossibly New
2:07
12
I’ll Be Haunting You
2:48
13
Got Getting Up So Down
1:42
14
What Did I Do to You?
1:29
15
Shape Shifter
3:12
16
Bills, Bills, Bills
3:16
17
Black Ops
2:31
18
I Wasn’t Listening
1:31
Moments Worth Waiting For
The surprisingly soulful and faithful cover of Destiny's Child's Bills, Bills, Bills that closes the record's main arc.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Phone Power sound next to the rest of They Might Be Giants's catalogue?

Focused Work+2.9σ

Focused Work saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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