Joe Lean scrap debut album (1 Viewer)

[BonsaiSuperstar]

http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2008/joe-lean-scraps-new-album

Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong have scrapped their forthcoming album following advice from their manager. The self-titled debut was due to be released by Vertigo on August 4, but their boss Raye Cosbert advised them that the material wasn’t representative of the group as they are now.

"They've grown as musicians, the album was recorded too early in their career," Cosbert told the NME. "The band have all agreed that's it's the best thing to do.” A Vertigo spokesman said, “We completely respect our artists’ creative decisions.”

Promo copies have already been sent out to journalists, meaning the “unrepresentative” tracks are out there. This led Xfm to ponder on the great records that have never had a proper release for one reason or another…

 

[Gambra]

Is this another one of all that awfully named lot that came along with the Ting Tings? I've never even heard these lads.

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

Is this another one of all that awfully named lot that came along with the Ting Tings? I've never even heard these lads.

yes! one of those hyped bands. i think they were in the bands to watch list for 2008 from the guardian

 

[David Kronenbourg]

these lads are great. give them a break. they have cool suits and fashionable haircuts so they must be good.

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

they're bleedin' brutal!!!!!

 

[nialler9]

fair play to them they realised they were shite.

 

[Deaglan]

with a bit of work, i think they could be the new Terris

 

[lympog]

with a bit of work, i think they could be the new Terris

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/jing-jang-wrong-1439834.html

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

well the album is reviewed today in the irish Indo as i think press copies of the album were released before the decision to pull!

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/jing-jang-wrong-1439834.html

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

touche!

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/25/popandrock.musicindustry

 

[Pantone247]

it's been review quite a bit

generally quite bad reviews

IMHO their first two singles were great, poppy smart, a little 60's and more fun then most UK guitar pop (Arctic Pigeon Monkeys) but suddenly the sound "toughened up" and all the fun Byrds-y Kinks bits were replaced by "pea soup" hi-hats and over compressed barbed wire guitars.

It'd be cool to think that this is a band who've decided not too release some generic pile of poo and get back to what made them sound exciting in the first place BUT I'd say it's more a record company cutting it's losses

Gas that's it's been scrapped this late, the promos have been around for about 4 or 5 weeks now.

 

[Pantone247]

I tell you what I bet The Black Kids wish they'd pulled their album... one luke warm single, a rash of being on every saturday morning music show and a really nervous performance on Glastonbury and *bang* your shitty album is being kicked to pieces all over the press... They're entire career arc has spanned about 12 weeks?!

 

[evil bandit]

I always thought they were a tribute to this man legend

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

holy moly are obsessed with joe lean.
god i hate holy moly so much.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I hear that Joe Lean can't read, and that he's going to join The Script.
The rest of the band will give up music because it's a nasty industry.

 

[Pantone247]

*sigh*

still waiting...

 

[lympog]

thinks time has passed for said band...

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

*sigh*

still waiting...

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