Published Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The That's Not My Name hitmakers had been working tirelessly on the follow-up to their 2008 debut We Started Nothing, and were set to release their second album in 2010.
They axed the record, and admit they felt the material they had recorded was too similar to other tracks around at the time.
Singer Katie White tells Digital Spy: "We were in Berlin where there is a great electro scene, and so we made songs like that, but quickly realised that everything on the radio was Euro-pop s**te. We didn't want our record to be tarnished with that brush."
Bandmate Jules de Martino adds: "We scrapped six of the ten songs, which upset quite a few people. We put out Hands, which was meant to be an underground, white label-only release and it ended up being playlisted on Radio 1 - we were quite angry so erased over half the album."
The stars are set to release their new album, Sounds from Nowheresville, on 27 February.