They're probably not actually Giants

They Might Be Giants released its 15th album, “Join Us,” earlier this year. The band probably should have been content with that.

Instead, it scrounged up unfinished tracks, covers and even a couple remixes, threw them all together like an island of misfit songs and called it “Album Raises New and Troubling Questions.”

Even though there are 20 tracks on “Album,” the run time is only 40 minutes. If my math is correct, that means each track is about two minutes. That is not nearly enough time to formulate a complete song, and Giants does it again and again.

A few tracks, such as “Marty Beller Mask” and the Chumbawumba cover “Tubthumping,” are fun to listen to, but there is just too much white noise surrounding them.

You have to wonder, after nearly 30 years as a band, is They Might Be Giants just phoning it in?