Just when we were about to ask, ‘what the hell ever happened to The Ting Tings!?’, the UK duo that first made it big with the severely catchy ‘Shut Up And Let Me Go’ and ‘That’s Not My Name’ make a return from out of ‘Nowheresville’.
With a deep back beat and a cutting funky guitar lick, ‘Wrong Club’ makes it sound as if Katie White and Jules De Martino have been listening to a lot of disco lately – or to put it mildly, have had Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ on repeat.
“I’m in the wrong club! Listening to this shit!” comes White’s velvety crack over a bed of insistent percussion, choppy guitars and a big ol’ rubbery bassline. Speaking to NME, the pair say the tune is “about feeling like you don’t fit in – finding someone you can leave with – finding someone like you – finding someone who likes you – even if you can’t dance like the rest.
‘Wrong Club’ heralds the release of the band’s upcoming third studio album, following on from 2012’s poorly performing sophomore Sounds From Nowheresville, which struggled to shift around 21,000 copies. A major flop compared to the Ting Tings’ 2008 debut We Started Nothing, which went 2x Platinum in their native England.
Will the 70s dance sound do wonders for the Tings Tings the way it did for two particular French robots? Time – and discerning ears deciding if its simply derivative – will decide.
