Music duo from the 2000s transforms into a 9-piece band with a distinct new sound

ebut album “We Started Nothing.” They also had success with the bouncy “Shut Up and Let Me Go,” featured in an Apple iPod commercial, as both singles went platinum.But the group intentionally shifted their sound on all subsequent albums, De Martino told NPR. 2012’s “Sounds from Nowheresville,” 2014’s “Super Critical,” and 2018’s “The Black Light” failed to see the same popularity as their debut.Then “Home,” released in June, became their hardest pivot yet.White has described it as an “easy breezy, mellow, kind of summer hazy album” reminiscent of songs like Bread’s “Make It With You.”“It was 2020 lockdown. We had our child, and we didn’t know if we were going to make another record as The Ting Tings. We actually called ourselves De Martino and White,” White told NPR. “And just started writing songs, thinking, no one’s probably going to hear them. We’re probably not going to tour it. We’re just madly in love with our child, locked in with Covid. And that way of writing, which took the pressure off and just took the weight of maybe how people would have expected us to sound. But I feel like we got to that place again where we just wrote songs that we loved, songs that just we wanted to grow old writing.”They still perform classic Ting Tings songs, though they now sing “That’s Not My Name,” “Shut Up and Let Me Go,” “We Walk,” “Great DJ” and “Be the One” in their new style. That may especially surprise fans of “That’s Not My Name,” that has continued to be popular online thanks to social media trends and TikTok video memes.“It’s a very frustrating song about feeling invisible and forgettable,” White told Vulture. “Everybody knows that song, which was amazing because we didn’t expect it to do anything. As soon as we put it up on MySpace, it instantly clicked with people. But you could feel it was oversaturated.”“To be clear, we loved the song and loved touring at that point,” De Martino told Vulture. “We got to see the whole world six times over. But we knew once that song got so big, it was going to be much more difficult to be the people we were when we made it.”The Ting Tings’ “Home” is currently available on all major music platforms. 2026 tour dates have not yet been announced.