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The Escape Team - Wikipedia

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The Escape Team

Studio album by

They Might Be Giants

Released

December 10, 2018

Studio

Reservoir Studios NYC

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

23:42

Label

Idlewild

Producer

They Might Be Giants, Pat Dillett

They Might Be Giants chronology

My Murdered Remains
(2018)

The Escape Team
(2018)

BOOK
(2021)

The Escape Team is the 22nd album by New York City-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, released on December 10, 2018^[1] for digital download and pre-order. The digital download and pre-order was released simultaneously with My Murdered Remains. The physical album was released in May 2019.^[2]

The Escape Team is a concept album, made in collaboration with long-time TMBG music video collaborator David Cowles, based on fictional characters from his original comic book of the same name.^[3]

In the year prior to the album's release, songs from The Escape Team were released as part of They Might Be Giants' 2018 Dial-A-Song series. Each song was released with a music video animated and directed by Cowles, with the exception of "The Poisonousness," which was directed by Ajax Digital Design.

Track listing

All tracks are written by They Might Be Giants except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Jackie the Clipper"		2:22
2.	"Chip the CHiP"		1:48
3.	"Burnice"		1:54
4.	"Dr. Sy Fly"		2:03
5.	"Dunkin Of Course Of Course"		2:06
6.	"Mr. Mischief Night"		2:11
7.	"John Postal"	(Christopher Albert Anderson, They Might Be Giants)	2:37
8.	"Flo Wheeler"		2:05
9.	"Corrupted Lyle"	(Christopher Albert Anderson, They Might Be Giants)	1:39
10.	"Re-PETE Offender"		2:13
11.	"The Poisonousness"	(Robin Goldwasser, They Might Be Giants)	2:55
Total length:			23:53

Personnel

They Might Be Giants

John Flansburgh – vocals, guitars, programming, etc.
John Linnell – vocals, keyboards, woodwinds, etc.

Backing Band

Marty Beller – drums
Dan Miller – guitars
Danny Weinkauf – bass guitar

Additional musicians

Chris Anderson – Bass and mellotron on "Corrupted Lyle".
Robin Goldwasser - vocals on "The Poisonousness"

Production

Daniel Avila – engineering
Pat Dillett – production, mixing
James York – engineering
Ue Nastasi – Audio mastering

References

^ "They Might Be Giants on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
^ "My Murdered Remains LP + Download". Retrieved 31 December 2018.
^ "They Might Be Giants visits KMSU Radio (3-15-2018". Retrieved 31 December 2018.

They Might Be Giants

Hal Cragin
Brian Doherty
Jonathan Feinberg
Dan Hickey
Kurt Hoffman
Graham Maby
Tony Maimone
Eric Schermerhorn

Studio albums

Rock albums	They Might Be Giants (1986) Lincoln (1988) Flood (1990) Apollo 18 (1992) John Henry (1994) Factory Showroom (1996) Long Tall Weekend (1999) Mink Car (2001) The Spine (2004) The Else (2007) Join Us (2011) Nanobots (2013) Glean (2015) Phone Power (2016) I Like Fun (2018) My Murdered Remains (2018) The Escape Team (2018) Book (2021)
Children's albums	No! (2002) Here Come the ABCs (2005) Here Come the 123s (2008) Here Comes Science (2009) Why? (2015)

EPs

Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) (1993)
Back to Skull (1994)
Working Undercover for the Man (2000)
They Might Be Giants In... Holidayland (2001)
Bed, Bed, Bed (2003)
Indestructible Object (2004)
The Spine Surfs Alone (2004)

Singles

Other songs

Live albums

Live!! New York City 10/14/94 (1994)
Severe Tire Damage (1998)
Live (1999)
The Spine Hits the Road (2004)
Almanac (2004)
Venue Songs (2004)
First Album Live! (2014)
Flood Live in Australia (2015)
Live in Brooklyn (2016)
Beast of Horns (2024)

Compilations

Don't Let's Start (1989)
Miscellaneous T (1991)
Then: The Earlier Years (1997)
Best of the Early Years (1999)
They Got Lost (2002)
Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants (2002)
A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants (2005)
Venue Songs DVD/CD (2005)
Album Raises New and Troubling Questions (2011)
Idlewild (2014)

Video releases

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