Throughout its 33-year career, the band They Might Be Giants has allowed more and more dark lyrics to sneak into its bouncing, jovial tunes. It's a fun juxtaposition: Tunes you can dance with your toddlers to, and chuckle when you hit a track like "Judy Is Your Viet Nam."

That's why, while listening to "End of the Rope" on my free version of Spotify, I thought I'd hit an advertisement. Nope. That was Johns Linnell's unmistakable, nasally voice. The eighth track, a curious pivot point in the 15-track LP "Glean," sounds – musically – like a crooner's lament over a breakup. The lyrics reflect that, too, but aren't without Linnell's equally identifiable sense of humor.

You're gone, but I'm still there clawing at the air/ Now it's curtains for me, and I'll spend eternity doing joyless cartwheels in the void.

And the madness in that void is perfectly clear in the dissonant, detune-guitar solo 2 minutes into the tune.

For 33 years, the band has poked fun at first-world problems, and it's impressive that the tunes are still so good in "Glean." A cacophony of instruments (as always) provide an at-times worldly feel, like in "Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2," which somewhat resembles the band's far-and-away most recognizable tune, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)."

The production is fun, and I love the Roaring Twenties-esque tune "Let Me Tell You About My Operation." The problem is that it's the 14th tune on an album that simply is too long.

But it checks in under 40 minutes. So get your dork (or dark) on and give it a listen.