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Join Us
Join Us is the fifteenth studio album from the rock band They Might Be Giants, released on July 19, 2011. It is the band's first adult album in four years since "The Else" in 2007. Following the success of their 2009 children's album, "Here Comes Science", the band returned to their adult audience with "Join Us", an eclectic collection of 18 songs.
In an interview with "The A.V. Club", Flansburgh commented, "We probably recorded 30
EMI/Universal not because we'd been co-opted into the 'If you can't beat capitalism ... join it' school of thought, but because experience had taught us that in a capitalist environment almost every record company operates on capitalist principles. Our previous record label One Little Indian didn't have the evil symbolic significance of EMI BUT they were completely motivated by profit. Our [Chumbawamba's] position was that whoever we signed with would want us not for our ideas but for the potential profit, so we