Favorite New Music: The Ting Tings
posted by Mojo Marshall
The Ting Tings
We Started Nothing
Columbia
2008
1. Great DJ
2. That’s Not My Name
3. Fruit Machine
4. Traffic Light
5. Shut Up and Let Me Go
6. Keep Your Head
7. We Walk
8. Be the One
9. Impacilla Carpisung
10. We Started Nothing
All Music Guide: The Ting Tings — a scrappy, dance-oriented indie pop duo consisting of singer and guitarist Katie White and drummer Jules De Martino — formed in the Salford district of Manchester, England, in 2006. Quickly signed to the local indie label Switchflicker Records, the Ting Tings released their debut single, “That’s Not My Name,” in the spring of 2007. Following the limited-edition, tour-only single “Fruit Machine,” the Ting Tings signed to major label Columbia Records later that year. The flipside of the Switchflicker single, “Great DJ,” was released as the duo’s debut major-label single in March 2008, followed by the reissue of “That’s Not My Name” with a new exclusive B-side remix. “That’s Not My Name” rose to the top of the U.K. charts in May 2008, the same month that the duo’s debut album, We Started Nothing, appeared.
Rant: Columbia and other labels, you are fucking idiots for disabling YouTube videos from being embedded on other sites! Here I am trying to promote your band and nobody can hear what they sound like unless they click on the links I could have provided. The people that read blogs don’t like to spend a lot of time jumping around the Internet when they are reading a story. Uh, so frustrating!
Try to enjoy the poor audio quality live videos.
“Great DJ” (Live)
“That’s Not My Name”
“Shut Up and Let Me Go”