Ah The Ting Tings, from humble beginnings a year ago to super-stardom today. The Ting Tings, winners before they knew it themselves, 7 months ago the BBC named them number three in the new Sound of 2008, only to Adele(number one single and album), and Duffy(also number one single and album). It was almost ineveitable to say that the Ting Tings were next in line, as the BBC havent been wrong in previous years, Arctic Monkeys and The Feeling to name a few. The Ting Tings album is a surpisingly good album, despite the odd hiccup in places.
The album is no doubt full of radio friendly single chart toppers, which is both a good and bad thing, and lets not get carried away, the album has many flaws as it rolls onto the last few songs of the album. But lets start with good points. The band have said that they are going to reinvent the pop genre, and they certainly going a different ring to it.

‘Great DJ’, the albums opener is deservedly already a proven winner, as radio coverage and tv coverage has helped propel this song into the limelight. Katie Whites(singer) voice is just and catchy, yet the song is so elegantly simple. ‘Thats Not My Name’, again, proven polularity is addictive drum beating action. The drum ensemble is definately a factor to the song, as the drums wrap itselft nicely around the bass and guitar. ‘Fruit Machine’ delves into slight mediocrity, as Whites voice mimmicks the guitar she plays, an uninventtive strategy that she tries to save with some smart and witty lyrics. ‘Traffic Light’ is an excellent example for reinvention of pop. The song is so off-colour, that its the finest example of song craftsmanship, the lyrics so simple, as the instrument gather complexity as the song progresses, this is a winner in the making. Again, Katies majestic voice gives a lasting impression over the rest of the song. ‘Shut Up and Let me Go’, having already featured on the latest ipod ad, and justifyingly so. The bass riff heads this song, and throws the rest into the background, with such a catchy riff, other pop bands would be scratching their heads thinking how they didnt think of it before.

From here on, the song starts to slide downhill. ‘Keep Your Head’ is a spiky and good song in its own, but the overall quality shows, leaving me think that the rest of this album may be full of fillers. Thankfully, ‘Be the One’, raises the game slightly, with a beautiful, wispy movement on the synth, and compliments the bass brilliantly. A song to remember. ‘We Walk’ takes a different approach, showing that the band can do piano ballads, that changes enough to keep us interested. Although praised, the song isnt all too great, and falls short of good.  ‘Impacilla Carpisung’ is the worst song on the album easily, and it sounds like the band ran out of ideas towards the end here, as well as the songs album title, ‘We Started Nothing’.
All in all, this album is very good, very inventive and extremely catchy. More of a singles band rather than an album, this just falls shy of excellent. With time, this band will be one of the big guns.