Telescope
From This Might Be A Wiki
| song name | Telescope |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | The World Is To Dig |
| year | 2026 |
| run time | 0:59 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- John Linnell spoke about the song in a 2026 interview with NTS's The Outsiders:
It's a very spare, percussive background. It uses a technique that we've come up with for a lot of stuff, which is that you put the percussive instruments through something called a ring modulator. So, you get this very interesting, weird, sort of bell-like quality coming out of the drums. It's a very stream of consciousness kind of lyric, I would say. Not very explicit but very suggestive.
- A brief snippet of this song was first previewed by John Flansburgh on September 26, 2025, during an Instagram livestream.[1]
Song Themes
Eyes, Lies And Deception, Microtones, Space, Swing Feel
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