{"id":130655,"date":"2026-02-11T23:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130655\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:40:23","slug":"from-particle-man-to-wu-tang-clan-quirky-band-set-to-drop-long-awaited-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130655\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018Particle Man\u2019 to \u2018Wu-Tang Clan\u2019: Quirky band set to drop long-awaited new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eccentric rock duo They Might Be Giants will release their first album in three years this spring, just months after dropping their \u201cEyeball\u201d EP, Stereogum<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe World Is to Dig\u201d drops on April 14, marking the group\u2019s first full-length release since 2021\u2019s Grammy-nominated \u201cBOOK.\u201d The album\u2019s lead single, \u201cWu-Tang,\u201d pays homage to the Staten Island hip-hop collective.<\/p>\n

The power-pop track features the band\u2019s two Johns singing the song\u2019s title repeatedly as they increasingly hit higher notes throughout the chorus. <\/p>\n

According to a press release, the song explores the Wu-Tang Clan as \u201ca transformative force and a guiding light through inner conflict and personal struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMany years ago, we discussed the idea of celebrating an artist or a style of music, but in the form of a completely unrelated genre of music,\u201d said the band\u2019s John Linnell. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe original idea was a Tin Pan Alley-style song extolling the greatness of heavy metal. \u2018Wu-Tang\u2019 was written more or less along those lines, partly inspired by their TV biopic, but void of any musical reference to the great hip-hop collective. Are we fans? Sure! Would we ever attempt to emulate their sound? Not publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe World Is to Dig\u201d will feature 18 new tracks. An exclusive 180-gram vinyl color variant of the LP will be available at indie record shops on April 17, according to Consequence of Sound<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In support of the album, They Might Be Giants announced the latest leg of their \u201cThe Bigger Show Tour\u201d which is set to kick off on April 17th with a two-night stint in Woodstock, before they head off to gigs in Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and Indianapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eccentric rock duo They Might Be Giants will release their first album in three years this spring, just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-130655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}