{"id":3198,"date":"2016-03-10T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T03:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:52:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T03:52:16","slug":"phone-power-might-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/phone-power-might-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Power: They Might Be Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Darien Campo \r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>This week, March 8th, alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants released their 19th studio album \u201cPhone<br \/>\nPower\u201d. \u201cPhone Power\u201d is the third collection of songs from the 2015 revival of TMBG\u2019s Dial-a-Song<br \/>\nproject, in which they recorded and released a brand new song (with an accompanying video) every<br \/>\nweek this year. The previous two collections of 2015 Dial-a-Songs, released earlier this year, were<br \/>\n\u201cWhy?\u201d and \u201cGlean\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who follows TMBG is already familiar with most of the songs on this album, since they\u2019ve<br \/>\npreviously made an appearance on dialasong.com, but it\u2019s still great to hear them all collected together<br \/>\nfor the first time.<\/p>\n<p>For a band that\u2019s been releasing music almost constantly for the past 30 years, it\u2019s truly amazing that<br \/>\nthey\u2019ve kept the same standard of quality on each album. Every song on \u201cPhone Power\u201d shows the same<br \/>\nattention to detail that Johns Flansburgh and Linnell have consistently delivered to their eager fans.<br \/>\nThere are some really fun tracks on this album. My personal favorite is \u201cI Am Alone\u201d, which details a<br \/>\nvery dramatic (and hilarious) standoff between 4 characters with too many plot twists to count. The<br \/>\nsongs are creative and fun as always, but nothing on the album really breaks away from the TMBG<br \/>\nstandard &#8212; which is hardly even a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable detail about \u201cPhone Power\u201d is that it is TMBG\u2019s first foray into the world of \u201cpay-what-<br \/>\nyou-want\u201d releases. If you visit tmbg.com\/phonepower you\u2019re greeted with the option to choose your<br \/>\nown price for the 18 track album. They even say that you can pay nothing for the album, \u201cbecause, like,<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t have any money right now. We understand. We totally support that idea. We don\u2019t mind<br \/>\ngiving things away.\u201d They do offer special deals for folks who pay more for the album, like a physical CD<br \/>\ninstead of a download link, and even an exclusive live stream to a show of theirs in April.<\/p>\n<p>Though the songs on \u201cPhone Power\u201d are fun, I\u2019m still waiting for TMBG to blow me away again like they<br \/>\ndid with their 2013 release \u201cNanobots\u201d. Regardless, \u201cPhone Power\u201d is a powerful addition to the<br \/>\nunstoppable The Might Be Giants discography, and is sure to please any fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, March 8th, alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants released their 19th studio album \u201cPhone<br \/>\nPower\u201d. \u201cPhone Power\u201d is the third collection of songs from the 2015 revival of TMBG\u2019s Dial-a-Song<br \/>\nproject, in which they recorded and released a brand new song (with an accompanying video) every<br \/>\nweek this year. The previous two collections of 2015 Dial-a-Songs, released earlier this year, were<br \/>\n\u201cWhy?\u201d and \u201cGlean\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}