The Else is the 12th studio album

Studio album

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 by rock

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 duo They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants

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, released by Idlewild Records in 2007. The album was produced in part by The Dust Brothers, along with Pat Dillett and the band.

The Else was first available for download through the iTunes Store

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 on May 15, 2007. The CD version was released in stores on July 10, 2007, with initial runs accompanied by a full-length bonus disc of rare material, Cast Your Pod To The Wind. On September 11, 2007, the band released a gatefold

Gatefold

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 vinyl LP of the album. Cast Your Pod was made available separately on iTunes in July, 2009.

A video, created by Mizushima Hine, for "With the Dark" was released on the band's YouTube

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 page on June 7, 2007. Two more videos, for "The Shadow Government" and "I'm Impressed" were also later released. A full-length video for "The Mesopotamians" was released on Stereogum.com on October 2.

Track listing

Cast Your Pod to the Wind (bonus disc)

Personnel

• John Flansburgh
  John Flansburgh
  John Conant Flansburgh is an American musician. He is half of the longstanding Brooklyn, New York-based alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, for which he writes, sings and plays rhythm guitar...
  
   – vocals, guitars, etc
• John Linnell
  John Linnell
  John Sidney Linnell is an American musician, is known primarily as one half of Brooklyn, New York alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants...
  
   – vocals, keyboards, etc
• Marty Beller
  Marty Beller
  Marty Beller is the drummer for They Might Be Giants. He has two solo albums. He also wrote and sang songs from TMBG's albums, Here Come the ABCs: "Alphabet Lost And Found", Here Come the 123s: "High Five!" and Here Comes Science: "Speed and Velocity".Beller became the full time drummer for the...
  
   – drums
• Dan Miller – guitar; piano on "Careful What You Pack"
• Danny Weinkauf
  Danny Weinkauf
  Danny Weinkauf is a New York based musician and composer who is a member of They Might Be Giants , a band which won a best children's album Grammy award for the album Here Come the 123s. He has been TMBG's bassist since the late 90s. He previously performed in a band called Lincoln along with Dan...
  
   – bass

• Mauro Refosco – percussion (track 9)
• Justin Meldal-Johnsen
  Justin Meldal-Johnsen
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   – acoustic bass (9)
• Dan Levine – trombone (9, 10)
• Stan Harrison
  Stan Harrison
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   – saxophone (9, 10)
• Jim O'Connor – trumpet (9, 10)
• Lyle Workman
  Lyle Workman
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   – guitar (6, 9)
• Sharon Jones
  Sharon Jones
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   – vocals (10)
• Patrick Dillett – engineer

Producers

• They Might Be Giants & Patrick Dillett – tracks 1, 4, 5, 8, 11, 13
• They Might Be Giants, Patrick Dillett, & The Dust Brothers – tracks 2 & 7
• The Dust Brothers - tracks 3, 6, 9, 10, 12

External links

• The Else page at This Might Be a Wiki
• With the Dark video at TMBG YouTube page
• The Shadow Government video
• The Mesopotamians video
• I'm Impressed video