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Konk [VINYL]
by Kooks
from Virgin

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Editorial Review:

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 though fans of their earlier material will love it, fussier indie fans will probably point their ears towards something less contrived. --Danny McKenna

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Nice summer album
  OK, critics will say this is another very regional accent sounding album, one of many artists like that at the moment (artic monkeys, reverand and the makers etc.) but saying that, this is a very good album for me. Nice easy listening, catchy without being nasty pop music. Dont expect anything too deep, but good iPod music, especially when the sun shines. Follows on nicely from the last album. It's on my playlist!

• Just to easy
  I really don't understand why so many people love this band so much. Oke they have written some catchy songs, buts thats not enough to fill a whole album. 4 "good" songs is not mutch for the money you eventually pay.
  It's to easy. This album has to many shortcoming (lyrics, music, fantasy, etc.)
  Of course they don't have to do a better job. Why should they? Everyone is just buying it because of the name. Who the Kooks!!!!!!
  They are just a big commercial hit, like Good Charlotte, or... more info

• Real hit and miss stuff.
  The kooks' second album was always going to be extremely difficult. The task in hand was to prove the critics wrong, maybe do something a bit different so as not to be labelled 1-trick ponies, and most importantly to keep the massive fan base which they had built on the back of their debut 'inside in/inside out'. Whether they have achieved any of these is debatable.
  The album starts out in promising fashion with the two guitars being used in `see the sun' infusing together to make a catchy, instantly... more info

• This is basic pop music, nothing more nothing less
  The Kooks can certainly churn out a radio friendly pop tune, but they're really a singles band not an album band. The album gets a bit boring after a while, there's not much depth to it. The musicians sound energetic and the singer delivers his tunes very well, although the lyrics aren't the most intelligent to say the least. All in all a decent pop record but not a classic.

Tracks:

1. See The Sun
2. Always Where I Need To Be
3. Mr Maker
4. Do You Wanna
5. Gap
6. Love It All
7. Stormy Weather
8. Sway
9. Shine On
10. Down To The Market
11. One Last Time
12. Tick Of Time
13. All Over Town

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