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Artist News
The Ting Tings scrap Berlin album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 18 November 2011
The Ting Tings have revealed that they have scrapped the album they recorded in Berlin in 2010, which was originally due for release this year. One single from the album, ‘Hands’, was released via Sony Music last October.
Speaking to The Daily Star, drummer Jules de Martino said that, after they broke the news about the axed album to their label, vocalist Katie White went AWOL for six weeks. White then pointed out that her bandmate was just recycling an old story that was originally told in reference to what supposedly happened when the label wanted to sign them in 2007, adding that he should think up something more original.
Actually, she didn’t, but she should have. What she actually said was this: “He thinks I’m weird and he’s normal, but I don’t see it like that at all. My phone is always off and I’m just not that reachable”.
Anyway, what about this bloody album? White explained: “We went to Berlin and really fell in love with techno and dance, which inspired the songs we made there, but [then] we just fell out of love with it. We went to Spain and stumbled on this new sound so we thought: ‘Fuck it, let’s make the album this way instead’. We’re not a big manufactured pop band with a song out every six months. The label might have pulled their faces a bit at the beginning, but they are now so happy we did it”.
Fingers crossed they’ll keep up this method of recording indefinitely.
