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| Album Rating: B+ |
Remember Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong? For most of you the answer will be a flat, definitive no. If, however, you read the NME around 2007 you'll know exactly where I'm coming from. The product of a particularly overzealous British hype machine, JL&TJJJ were essentially another average, landfill indie collective, the type we regularly dismiss and ridicule now that the genre is in the midst of a mainstream lull. Ironically, their eventual fate wasn't too far removed. With promotion in full swing and reviews piling in, the band canned their debut album upon imminent release, beginning something of a mini soap opera and causing much amusement among those unassociated. Tired of their frontman's antics, The Jing Jang Jong crumbled soon after, but that was only the beginning for Tom Dougall, Dominic O'Dair and Maxim Barron, who now make up three fifths of a markedly different outfit.
