Sounds from Nowheresville
- The Ting Tings
- Band Name: The Ting Tings
- Record Label: Columbia
- Release Date: Mar 13, 2012
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Mar 22, 201250Sounds 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, 201240Disappointing--and worse yet, faceless. [Apr 2012, p.99]
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Mar 15, 201267This is no five-star, but the disc's greatest wobble is also its strongest suite: It genre-hops.
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Feb 22, 201260It's fun, but not a lot to show for four years work.
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Apr 12, 201245Unfortunately it's largely downhill from here [after opener "Silence"].
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Mar 20, 201260The 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, 201260Nothing'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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Mar 13, 201225The mediocrity taints the entire record and makes one wonder how it all went so wrong.
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Mar 20, 201220Seems shambled and unfinished. [No. 85, p.58]
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Mar 23, 201260They 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, 201240Ultimately it's hard to see this matching the levels of their early success.
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Feb 27, 201250The 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, 201240What's also noticeable is how unnecessarily restrained most of the album is.
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Mar 15, 201240Doing lame imitations of other things that are popular seems to be the mission statement for Sounds From Nowhere.
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Mar 1, 201218Sounds 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, 201240The 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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Mar 14, 201240Like 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, 201270The 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, 201220It all amounts to a great deal of bluster for bluster's sake and becomes tiresome almost instantly.
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Mar 27, 201230Maybe the Ting Tings have pulled some sort of Lou Reed maneuver here. Maybe this is their Lulu.
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Mar 13, 201267Sounds From Nowheresville is a blast when it's on and imminently forgettable when it's not.
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Feb 17, 201210Altogether, it's an insipid assault of dribbly, sub-Billie Piper pop sludge.
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Feb 23, 201240What Sounds from Nowheresville most obviously evokes isn't anger or even if-we-must sulkiness, but confusion.
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Feb 24, 2012100These 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, 201280This is an album that deserves at least to reacquaint the Ting Tings with the outskirts of Somewheresville.
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Feb 27, 201240A 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, 201280They 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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Feb 27, 201250Much of the album either grates or bores.
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Feb 17, 201280One-hit wonders no more, White and de Martino now sound prepared for a big pop future. [Mar 2012, p.101]
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Mar 21, 201250Pure candy at its highest moments, but perceptibly hollow at others. [March 2012, p.80]
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2There may be bongo drums and bells chimes thrown in aimlessly to try and spice things up, but that frankly cannot distract from the pairâ