The Ting Tings
‘Sounds From Nowheresville’ (Columbia)
The charming thing about good pop music is its way with a hook. Repetition’s marvellous when it’s done really well. Instead, The Ting Tings’ more-is-more approach to stuffing a musical motif in our ears is so incessantly irritating that, by Katie White’s 95th husky “Day to day/day to day/day to day/day to day” – the album’s eighth track, by the way, the way the way the way – we’re already prepared to smash our laptop into tiny bits. Altogether, it’s an insipid assault of dribbly, sub-Billie Piper pop sludge. Still, it’s music to jog to, I guess. IF YOU’RE A MORON.

Euan L Davidson
03 Feb 2012 7:19pmThat last sentence ends me every time.
Garry McDowall
06 Feb 2012 7:15pmhaha brilliant review, and aye the last sentence is a belter lol.
Garry McDowall
06 Feb 2012 7:15pmhaha brilliant review, and aye the last sentence is a belter lol.
Jay Wulff
06 Feb 2012 10:56pmOh my! I had been looking forward to this album….
Didn't they recently give an interview where they said multiple times how they'd desperately wanted to avoid just writing a pop album?!
Susan Bell
14 Feb 2012 4:19pmIs there an echo in here springs to mind!
Robin Wajs
16 Feb 2012 4:48pmAwful review. It sounds like you think the whole album sounds like the song 'Day to Day', which is to be honest, the worst song on the album. Instead of talking about the Berlin inspiered masterpiece 'One By One' or the second single 'Soul Killing' which is a very good pop song that could also fit on the debut album, which got amazing reviews.. Oh well.
Thomas Brindle
28 Feb 2012 11:42amAn album so bad that they have to go on BBC Breakfast to flog it.