 | Konk/Rak - The Kooks
Publisher: EMI Records
Released on 14 April 2008
List Price: £14.99
Konk, the second album from indie pop starlets The Kooks, will appeal to those who enjoyed the catchier, hookier elements of their best-selling debut Inside In/Inside Out. For the band are more "pop" than "indie" this time around, and Konk is an overt attempt at winning even more chart-topping kudos: and it's not a bad attempt at that. Recorded over a six-week period at the end of 2007 (in Ray Davies' Konk Studios in London), the album's first single "Always Where I Need to Be" is as insouciantly catchy as a contemporary rock band can get, while tracks like opener "See the Sun," and "Mr. Maker", with its infectious hand claps, are equally accessible. There's tougher fare like "Sway", which show the boys can blast it when they want, but the album generally plays it safe, grappling (clumsily in places) with themes of love and sex, and revealing not a great deal of musical or lyrical depth in the process (see "Do You Wanna"). The album runs out of steam towards the end, and... Read More
| Tracks |
| See The Sun | Always Where I Need To Be | Mr. Maker | Do You Wanna |
| Gap | Love It All | Stormy Weather | Sway |
| Shine On | Down To The Market | One Last Time | Tick Of Time |
| Watching The Ships Roll In | Eaten By Your Lover | No Longer | Fa La La La La |
| Nothing Ever Changes | By My Side | Hatful Of Love | See The Sun (Alternate Version) |
| Brooklyn (Home Demo) |
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