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Kooks - KonkKonk, 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 though fans of their earlier material will love it, fussier indie fans will probably point their ears towards something less contrived. --Danny McKenna... Read More »
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| Average User Rating: 80% | |
| 1 / 5 | Morons of the world unite!
Irvine Brandy (Scotland) - 11 March 2008 I am going to give this 1 star purely on the basis that all those morons who have rated it 5 stars without hearing it should be banned from rating! You heard a single - big wow! you think they're going to release a bad 1st single? go listen to One Night Only's album - a blinding anthem of a single (just for tonight) and an awful album! or dare I say it....the Killers awful 2nd album.... You people need help - NME is not the only fruit!... Read Full Review » |
| 2 / 5 | Oh come on.... its DULL!!!!
Mr. S. Burr (Bromley, Kent, UK) - 9 April 2008 Another huge let down in the world of rock and roll (or whatever is left of it). `The Kooks....' The clue is in the title `Konk' - crap title, crap album. This is the musical equivalent of a wet fart. How do bands that produce searingly, blisteringly hot debut albums (The Editors & Coldplay included) produce such piles of bland watery music by numbers tat thereafter. These tracks sound like Luke got his 12 year old kid brother to write them for him while he was out shopping for some tight jeans and a tub of hair grease. It really winds me up; thank god I only paid a pound for it. This will be a one listen album, I've suffered enough. Radiohead may be pretentious but at least they are still making heartfelt, exciting, interesting music - and moving with the times, and not following trends started by jumped up teenagers in Kensington and Chelsea. God it's awful, as I write this, the bland music fills my ears and makes me want to vomit. I feel a life in rock and roll is too much for the kooks and they have burnt out after 2 years in the industry. Oh well maybe someone should put them out of there misery, Or maybe they could go work in a DIY store? ... Read Full Review » |
| 1 / 5 | er.....what happened
R. Sutton "gr8" (London) - 30 March 2008 Ok, i loved the first album, listened to this new album Konk a few times, absolutely bores me rigid, seriously what happened? Go buy the Foals album and have some fun, this is pure tripe, |
| 5 / 5 | Excellent follow-up
Mr. Robert S. Johnson "johnso162" - 15 March 2008 I actually do have the album and have just listened to it the first time all the way through! I agree that it is definiatley 5 star. Theres some great new sounds but with a couple of tracks that sound similar to a couple off the first album. |
| 1 / 5 | As per usual for these twits: It's bloody awful.
M. Beckwith (UK) - 13 April 2008 Dull, dull, dull and more dull. They've pretty much lived up to my expectations as one of the worst bands in existence - this album is bland repetitive and above all, utterly dire. Buy something that's not this, and save your ears a horrible death. |
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14 April 2008
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