The Ting Tings Bring 'Sounds From Nowheresville'
It's been four years since Katie White and Jules de Martino — better known to the world at large as The Ting Tings — first burst into view with their visceral, stripped-down sound, gleefully breaking down the boundaries between rock, pop, and dance music with their blockbuster debut album, We Started Nothing. Now it seems that the British duo has finally gotten around to unleashing their follow-up, Sounds From Nowheresville, which is set to drop on February 27 in Europe and March 13 in the U.S. via Columbia Records. But you won't have to wait that long to hear a couple of the new tracks The Ting Tings have come up with.
There's already a video for the album's first single, "Hang It Up," where Katie and Jules come off as a pair of skate-park samurai. And just today, Spinner premiered the new Ting Tings tune "Soul Killing." And while there's still plenty of the sharp, spiky feel that made the first album such a success, advance reports on the rest of the album promise that there's a stylistic expansion afoot, involving the incorporation of such unexpected inspirations as The Beach Boys and Fleetwood Mac, so the overall feel of Nowheresville is still very much up in the air at this point as far as the public is concerned. Ting Tings and Fleetwood Mac? We shall see...
