Album Info

Nanobots

By They Might Be Giants

Rock - 2013

It's sometimes hard to figure out which They Might Be Giants songs are aimed at grownups and which are meant... more

Tracklist

1

You're on Fire

2:41 min
2

Nanobots

2:45 min
3

Black Ops

3:11 min
4

Lost My Mind

2:50 min
5

Circular Karate Chop

2:56 min
6

Call You Mom

3:06 min
7

Tesla

2:04 min
8

Sleep

0:42 min
9

Stone Cold Coup D'etat

2:57 min
10

Sometimes a Lonely Way

2:40 min
11

Destroy the Past

0:15 min
12

9 Secret Steps

1:56 min
13

Hive Mind

0:06 min
14

Decision Makers

0:15 min
15

Nouns

0:17 min
16

There

0:09 min
17

Insect Hospital

1:30 min
18

Tick

0:11 min
19

Replicant

2:55 min
20

The Darlings of Lumberland

3:21 min
21

Great

0:52 min
22

Stuff Is Way

1:37 min
23

Icky

2:32 min
24

Too Tall Girl

2:34 min
25

Didn't Kill Me

0:31 min

About Nanobots

It's sometimes hard to figure out which They Might Be Giants songs are aimed at grownups and which are meant for kids; the duo's love of wacky gestures and smart but silly songwriting means it's easy to confuse the two. "Circular Karate Chop" doesn't necessarily indicate its intended audience, since who doesn't love a killer pop hook and a goofy, spaced-out bridge? But the Brooklyn-based songwriters (inhabitants of that borough long before the last three or four waves of hipness) have set their sights back on the over-12 portion of their audience. "Call You Mom" is an awkward dating tactic. (Does any woman want to hear that she reminds her date of his mom?) "Tesla" is a history lesson of the legendary inventor in two minutes. The 43-second "Sleep" is the first of nine songs that come in at less than a minute. These miniatures prove a song can be anything you want it to be.