The Else is the twelfth studio album by rock group They Might Be Giants, released by Idlewild Recordings on May 15, 2007.

The album was produced in part by the Dust Brothers, along with Pat Dillett and the band.

The CD version was released in stores on July 10, 2007, with initial runs accompanied by a full-length bonus disc of rare material, Cast Your Pod to the Wind (the title being a parody of jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi’s 1962 hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind").

"Contrecoup" was originally written and recorded in 2005 as part of a challenge issued on the Next Big Thing in which lexicographer Erin McKean implored John Linnell to use the words "contrecoup", "craniosophic", and "limerent" in a song so that the words could be added to or remain in the dictionary.

[11] A video, created by Mizushima Hine, for "With the Dark" was released on the band's YouTube page on June 7, 2007.