{"id":2645,"date":"2011-07-26T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:49:16","slug":"they-might-be-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/they-might-be-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2646\" title=\"THEY-MIGHT-BE-GIANTS-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THEY-MIGHT-BE-GIANTS-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THEY-MIGHT-BE-GIANTS-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THEY-MIGHT-BE-GIANTS-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HEY MIGHT BE GIANTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Join Us<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Idlewild]<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn indie-rock originators They Might Be Giants claim to once again be making music for adults, but when it comes to the \u201cthe two Johns\u201d\u2014founding frontmen and songwriters Flansburgh and Linnell\u2014\u201cgrown-up\u201d has always been a relative term. Were it not for a handful of PG-13 words and concepts, <em>Join Us<\/em> might appeal to young fans of <em>Here Come the ABCs <\/em>and <em>Here Comes Science<\/em>, two of four children\u2019s albums the band has released in the last decade. The Johns describe a cop-punching troublemaker on \u201cOld Pine Box\u201d and await the demise of a certain world leader\u2014a recent U.S. president, perhaps\u2014on \u201cWhen Will You Die.\u201d Mostly, though, they keep it sweet, goofy and tuneful, reviving the wordy, nerdy pop sound they created in the mid-\u201980s. For every silly march-time number or funk-rock toss-off, the band offers a \u201cCelebration\u201d or \u201cCan\u2019t Keep Johnny Down\u201d\u2014cerebral power-pop affirmations for aging hipsters. \u2014Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Join Us [Idlewild] Brooklyn indie-rock originators They Might Be Giants claim to once again be making music for adults, but when it comes to the \u201cthe two Johns\u201d\u2014founding frontmen and songwriters Flansburgh and Linnell\u2014\u201cgrown-up\u201d has always been a relative term. Were it not for a handful of PG-13 words and concepts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2097,2096,1636,2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}