The Ting Tings

The Ting Tings

‘Sounds From Nowheresville’ (Columbia)

0.5
By JJ Dunning 03 Feb 2012

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 7:19pm

That last sentence ends me every time.

Garry McDowall

06 Feb 2012 7:15pm

haha brilliant review, and aye the last sentence is a belter lol.

Garry McDowall

06 Feb 2012 7:15pm

haha brilliant review, and aye the last sentence is a belter lol.

Jay Wulff

06 Feb 2012 10:56pm

Oh 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 4:19pm

Is there an echo in here springs to mind!

Robin Wajs

16 Feb 2012 4:48pm

Awful 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 11:42am

An album so bad that they have to go on BBC Breakfast to flog it.