Blog: angels twenty

The length of a pop album is a tricky thing to get right. Usually you take two or three irresistable formulas for a song and repeat them over and over again to make an album, which introduces the major problem: not enough repetition and you've wasted the hitmaking potential of your formulas; too much repetition and you've worn out your welcome well before the end. By this measure, the Ting Tings overshot by about three songs. The British duo may very well be the final result of an online music culture attacking and then merging with more traditional [...]