We Started Nothing [Import] [PR]
THE TING TINGS
レーベル： SONY MUSIC UK
CD
発売日： 2008年5月18日(日)
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◎関連『映画・ドラマ』タイトル
◎曲目リスト
- Great DJ
- That's Not My Name
- Fruit Machine
- Traffic Light
- Shut Up and Let Me Go
- Keep Your Head
- We Walk
- Be The One
- Impacilla Carpisung
- We Started Nothing
◎レビュー (Amazon)
The debut album by Salford's The Ting Tings comes hot on the heels of their No.1 single "That's Not My Name", a nugget of pop gold that comes on like a genetic splicing of Toni Basil's "Micky" and The Knack's "My Sharona". The bulk of We Started Nothing follows a similar formula, navigating a path between the smart, angular indie of CSS, Bonde Do Role, et al and the pop mainstream. Here and there, they pull it off perfectly: the stutter-rap of "Fruit Machine" sees vocalist Katie White leading on some poor sap with sultry charisma and lip-gloss sass, while the excellent "Shut Up and Let Me Go" is snappy dance-punk in the spirit of Blondie's "Rapture" or Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love". Elsewhere, they branch out with mixed results. "We Walk" builds from quiet flourishes of piano into a surprisingly steely manifesto: "Smash the rest up/Burn it down/Put us in the corner cause we're into ideas", sneers White. Rather less good is "Traffic Light", a light, jazzy number that employs a number of somewhat forced driving metaphors to describe a relationship hit the skids. Still, it's a debut with promise, and a string of good singles is nothing to be sniffed at. -?Louis Pattison
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