John Flansburgh says more than 40 years of working with John Linnell as They Might Be Giants (TMBG) has been “just a crazy lifetime of doing it” -- but is not entirely surprised they still are.

“We went into it very ambitious about what we could do, and what we had to say,” noted Flansburgh, 65, who met Linnell, 66, when both were teenagers in the Boston suburb of Lincoln, Mass., and joined forces musically after both moved to Brooklyn in 1981.

“No matter what’s happening with us individually, we come at this with very heightened expectations about what’s possible, and it’s a very optimistic project.”

That’s led to 23 studio albums -- most recently “Book” in 2021 -- as well as five children’s albums.

As TMBG, Flansburgh and Linnell have only had one outright hit single, 1990’s “Birdhou

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