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Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong leave record label

Band without a deal despite re-recording album

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong have parted company with their record label, Mercury, despite re-recording their debut album last year.

The band are now without a record deal, although frontman Joe Lean has said that the band are not splitting up and the album will still be released.

"It's not so much a kind of dropping thing, [but] we've definitely parted ways," he told NME.COM. "It's mutual vibes. We sat down and had a meeting."

The singer added that the band were now considering methods of releasing thair newly-recorded album, with Lean saying it would be released somehow within the next year.

"A year from now there'll be at least an album and a few songs out," he claimed. "I'm not tired, I haven't even started."

Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong recently released a new song, 'One Woman', online.

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dcajoe

Oct 29, 2009

"It's not so much a kind of dropping thing, [but] we've definitely parted ways," he told NME.COM. "It's mutual vibes. We sat down and had a meeting."- Christ, where to start? So they recorded an album. It was shit and their record company told them to go an make something worth everyone's while. A year passes and they still haven't come up with anything good enough. If he's so full of ideas that he "hasn't even started" how comes they can't even scrape together enough songs to make an album? Joe Lean? Joe ... Shit more like.

aphexbin

Oct 29, 2009

"not so much a dropping thing'??No Joe you tool you were dropped. thats spelt D-R-O-P-P-E-D because your band stinks and a big major like Mercury would rather cut their losses than continue to pour even money into your vacuous gob.