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Mar 22, 2012Sounds from Nowheresville shows that the Ting Tings have more range than their debut suggested, but while it's more ambitious and crafted, it's just not as coherent as We Started Nothing.
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Feb 27, 2012Disappointing--and worse yet, faceless. [Apr 2012, p.99]
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Mar 15, 2012This is no five-star, but the disc's greatest wobble is also its strongest suite: It genre-hops.
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Feb 22, 2012It's fun, but not a lot to show for four years work.
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Apr 12, 2012Unfortunately it's largely downhill from here [after opener "Silence"].
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Mar 20, 2012The first five tracks stick more or less to the angular post-punk dance-party template....It's on the back half that Nowheresville turns crazily experimental
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Mar 13, 2012Nothing's wrong with stylized (uber- or otherwise) music (Paul's Boutique was, after all). But it helps when the craft behind the glitz is just as compelling.
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Feb 27, 2012Much of the album either grates or bores.
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Mar 13, 2012The mediocrity taints the entire record and makes one wonder how it all went so wrong.
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MagnetMar 20, 2012Seems shambled and unfinished. [No. 85, p.58]
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MojoMar 23, 2012They sound more and more as if they've found a sound that they can all their own. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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Feb 17, 2012Ultimately it's hard to see this matching the levels of their early success.
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Feb 27, 2012The unfortunate irony is that Sounds From Nowheresville doesn't sound much like a grand rejection of pop music at all. It just sounds a little bereft of ideas, and way too short.
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Mar 9, 2012What's also noticeable is how unnecessarily restrained most of the album is.
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Mar 15, 2012Doing lame imitations of other things that are popular seems to be the mission statement for Sounds From Nowhere.
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Mar 1, 2012Sounds From Nowheresville makes me want to buy chocolate, try on clothes, take a holiday--anything but listen to this record.
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Mar 13, 2012The whole effort, a mere 33 minutes worth but seemingly longer, is disappointing, save one or two songs. Multiple spins just can't save this one.
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2012Like over-keen Masterchef contestants, they chuck everything onto the plate to show off their skills, resulting in a charmless mess of congealed ideas. [April 2012, p.105]
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Mar 13, 2012The music dips into ska, Eighties electro and power ballads, and the sumptuously noirish torch song "In Your Life" proves White's heart is as big as her spleen.
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Mar 12, 2012It all amounts to a great deal of bluster for bluster's sake and becomes tiresome almost instantly.
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Mar 27, 2012Maybe the Ting Tings have pulled some sort of Lou Reed maneuver here. Maybe this is their Lulu.
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Mar 13, 2012Sounds From Nowheresville is a blast when it's on and imminently forgettable when it's not.
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Feb 17, 2012Altogether, it's an insipid assault of dribbly, sub-Billie Piper pop sludge.
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Feb 23, 2012What Sounds from Nowheresville most obviously evokes isn't anger or even if-we-must sulkiness, but confusion.
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Feb 24, 2012These 10 tracks are a masterclass in modern pop creation, pinballing from style to style without endangering their essential "TingTingness".
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Feb 27, 2012This is an album that deserves at least to reacquaint the Ting Tings with the outskirts of Somewheresville.
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Feb 27, 2012A curious listen, Sounds From Nowheresville is akin to having your memory wiped at exactly the same moment an experience is stored in the brain.
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Feb 17, 2012They know how to knock a tune together and have delivered a pop party album thrillingly in tune with contemporary listening habits.
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UncutFeb 17, 2012One-hit wonders no more, White and de Martino now sound prepared for a big pop future. [Mar 2012, p.101]
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Under The RadarMar 21, 2012Pure candy at its highest moments, but perceptibly hollow at others. [March 2012, p.80]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 32
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Mixed: 10 out of 32
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Negative: 5 out of 32
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Feb 27, 2012There may be bongo drums and bells chimes thrown in aimlessly to try and spice things up, but that frankly cannot distract from the pairâ
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Jun 15, 2012
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Apr 18, 2012