Got this alert from a fellow TMBG fan. The new album is currently available on iTunes, but the commercial release (due July 10) will include a full bonus disc. (Here's hoping it has some of those Dunkin' Donuts jingles.)

AHH! THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS NEW ALBUM IS CURRENTLY #1
ON THE iTUNES ALTERNATIVE CHART
and #11 on the general iTunes chart

Please grab your own copy
and help TMBG ride the wild chart!
THE ELSE is now available in pre-release form at iTunes.
13 brand new songs from us to you. Produced by Patrick
Dillett, The Dust Brothers and They Might Be Giants.

I'm Impressed | Take Out The Trash | Upside Down Frown
Climbing The Walls | Careful What You Pack | The Cap'm
With The Dark | The Shadow Government
Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth Withered Hope
Contrecoup | Feign Amnesia | The Mesopotamians

The CD will be out on July 10th and includes artwork
by Canadian art-master Marcel Dzama. If you are primarily
a CD purchaser and dread duplicating your purchase at iTunes
with a later CD, we are happy to report the first edition of
The Else is a special deluxe CD package will includes a FULL
LENGTH bonus CD including many previously unreleased
top quality studio recordings in brilliant CD quality sound!

Listing is now up for the physical package that Jimbo described above. Note that the bonus disc only comes with initial pressings so it's a good idea to pre-order this one ...



>> Amazon.com

Twenty years after their debut album introduced a well-read duo with a peculiar wit and a gift for contagious melodies, They Might Be Giants--a.k.a. John Linnell and John Flansburgh--still come across as exhilarating and spanking fresh as the theme song to Comedy Central's Daily Show. (Oh yeah, that's them, too.) Fresh off the Giants' second children's record (2005's Here Come the ABCs), the New York twosome began a production alliance with L.A.'s Dust Brothers that resulted in The Else, another collection that ranks with any in their memorable discography. From the fast-tempo opener "I'm Impressed" through the '60s pop edge of "The Mesopotamians," endearing hooks reel you in just far enough for the humorous, often oddball lyrics to bury you. But several times the implications in the lyrics are all too real, such as the love undertones of "Contrecoup" and "Take Out the Trash," an uncannily catchy dump-your-boyfriend song that suggests "Once you get him out, tell him not to come back again." Contradictions like these never bother to disrupt the sequencing, but rather drive home what we already know about They Might Be Giants: they already are. <<

>> About the Artist

Since 1982, a few years before they released their 1987 debut, John Flansburgh and John Linnell have been They Might Be Giants, an independent band named after a 1971 George C. Scott movie who are, to echo their own description of their current collaborators The Dust Brothers, pop musicians unto themselves. Their work provides, in the prescient judgment of The SPIN Alternative Record Guide (1995) "a fabulous example of just how far the concept of punk can stretch." In subsequent years, They Might Be Giants have elongated things further, although never to the breaking point. They have released twelve albums, of which The Else, a wildly rocking and sturdy collection of thirteen unfailingly acute songs co-produced by The Dust Brothers (Beck, Beastie Boys), is the latest. It includes a 23 song bonus disc with the album's first edition and features Linnell (who sings and plays keyboards, primarily) and Flansburgh (who sings and plays guitar, primarily) working in tightest accord with their current band of guitarist Dan Solder Miller, bassist Danny Weinkauf, and drummer Marty Beller. <<

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QTCY5O/?tag=imwan-20

I got my copy. Strange - the Else CD clocks in at 38 minutes with 13 tracks. The bonus "full length" disc has 23 tunes and clocks in at 41 minutes. No details anywhere on the bonus disc - it reminds me of Flood. I like it better than the main disc. (Title on the bonus disc is "Cast your pod to the wind"