Factory Showroom by They Might Be Giants

Factory Showroom, They Might Be Giants' sixth album, came out on Elektra in 1996, and it finds the Brooklyn duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell fully at home as a rock band. It was their first record produced by Pat Dillett, who would handle every album after it, and the first with a second guitarist, Eric Schermerhorn, alongside Brian Doherty on drums, Hal Cragin on bass and Dan Levine's trombone.

The wit is as sly and satirical as ever, but the arrangements are fuller and punchier, and "S-E-X-X-Y" has them trying on a slinky, smooth groove for size. Two years on, Flansburgh named it his favorite of their albums. The band felt Elektra barely pushed it, and after it came out they left the label.

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