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Mink Car… It’s like going to a really good restaurant where the service is a little chaotic: You kvetch about how long it takes for the main course to arrive, but deep down you know it's worth the wait. And besides, the place is filled with old friends and intriguing new faces — perhaps even a celebrity or two — so there’s plenty to keep you distracted and entertained. They Might Be Giants fans know what we're talking about. Two years in the making, created between a blizzard of projects for film, TV, the internet and elsewhere, Mink Car is the crowning achievement of alternative rock’s most manic over-achievers. So take a seat — your table is waiting. While new fans flocking to the Giants may be a little wet behind the ears, the band's saga goes way back to Brooklyn in the mid-‘80s where the two Johns joined forces to realize their low-fi, home recording dreams. But it was the fateful purchase of a telephone answering machine that turned them into urban legends overnight. Because of their amazingly prolific output, news of TMBG’s Dial-A-Song service (still rockin’ at 718-387-6962) spread the good word nationwide. People magazine picked up the story, which forced TMBG to come up from the underground, blinking in the glare of sudden notoriety. A sleeper hit, their eponymous debut album became essential listening on college radio in 1987. What sold it was their unprecedented marriage of lilting, seamlessly-crafted melody with free-associative lyrics delivered in the deadpan style, unique only to TMBG. Mink Car also features the Band of Dans — the TMBG touring group, for which being named Dan is an apparent prerequisite for membership. As if that's not enough, this is guaranteed to be the only album this year to feature a contrabass sarrusophone dueting with a raushphife. Better even than that, it's another TMBG album, and a piece de résistance not to be forgotten. |
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