They Might Be Giants
Phone Power

Listening notes

They Might Be Giants released Phone Power in 2016 on Idlewild Recordings, catalog number IDLE142. The record is classified under alternative rock and rock, and was issued on vinyl.

The album is a substantial collection, spreading eighteen tracks across two sides. The A side opens with "Apophenia" at two minutes and thirty-three seconds and moves through eight additional tracks, closing out with "I Wasn't Listening" — though that title belongs to the B side's final entry. The A side's sequence runs from "Apophenia" through "I Love You For Psychological Reasons," "To A Forest," "I Am Alone," "Say Nice Things About Detroit," "Trouble Awful Devil Evil," "Ecnalubma," "Daylight," and "Sold My Mind To The Kremlin." The B side picks up with "It Said Something" and continues through "Impossibly New," "I'll Be Haunting You," "Got Getting Up So Down," "What Did I Do To You?," "Shape Shifter," "Bills, Bills, Bills," "Black Ops Alt," and "I Wasn't Listening."

Individual track lengths are notably compact. Only three tracks on the entire record exceed three minutes: "Trouble Awful Devil Evil" at three minutes and twenty-nine seconds, "Bills, Bills, Bills" at three minutes and sixteen seconds, and "It Said Something" at three minutes and twelve seconds. At the other end, "I Wasn't Listening" and "What Did I Do To You?" clock in at one minute and thirty seconds and one minute and twenty-nine seconds respectively, making them the briefest entries on the record. The total runtime, calculated across all eighteen tracks, situates this as a moderately lengthy single LP release given the density of its tracklist.

The title Phone Power and the Idlewild Recordings imprint are confirmed details for anyone cataloguing this pressing. Researchers or collectors cross-referencing catalog number IDLE142 will find it corresponds to this specific vinyl edition.