The Ting Tings Name New Album After German Massage Parlour

Posted on Jan 12th 2010 5:20AM by Farah Ishaq
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The Ting Tings have announced that their second album, which will be released later this year, is to be titled 'Kunst' -- and that the name is inspired by a German massage parlour.

The 'That's Not My Name' duo -- Katie White and Jules De Martino -- have been recording the follow-up to their debut 'We Started Nothing' in Berlin, and De Martino told NME about how they picked the name.

"Just round the corner to our studio there's a massage parlour, it's called Massage Kunst. It's Massage Art, basically ["kunst" is German for "art"]. We took a picture of that and sent it to our label, saying this is the title of the album. They went berserk."

Revealing more details about the new material, they say they've added more keyboards to their sound. De Martino added, "We listened back to some of the demos and we thought, hold on a minute, this is sounding too much like we're rocking out live. We bought a couple of old weird synths in New York and smuggled them in our suitcases back to Berlin and they started to come strong on the music."

Track titles on the second album will include 'Help' and 'Hands'.