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  • Audio CD (14 April 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B0010YOJNO
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
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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
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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


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3.0 out of 5 stars Gets more boring with each listen, 27 April 2008
By A. Mills (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
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This album is ok, strangely on my first listen I (thought I) instantly loved it, but the more I listen to it the more often I find myself skipping through tracks. Track 1 is perhaps the best, a number of others (maybe even the whole second half of the album) are pretty bland and are second rate versions of tracks off the first album. Plus Luke's voice begins to grate after a while. I've no doubt I'll give it more of a chance yet but I'll do that at the risk of becoming even more bored with it. Finally I can't see myself still listening to this in a year's time, whereas, thanks to 'Konk'(which is possibly the best thing about the album), I've rediscovered their first album and have found myself listening to it all over again.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff - here to stay., 22 April 2008
By AlanMusicMan (Salisbury UK) - See all my reviews
  
The Kooks are here to stay. I never thought, after the first album, they would be. But here's the proof. The first album was three or four stand out tracks with "some others" - but this album is almost all gold.

I guess it depends what you like, personally I like rhythmic pace variation, engaging but not pretentious lyrics, a range of strong tunes that stick and a band that sounds like they're enjoying doing what they do. This album has all these things - in spades.

Best album I have bought since the Kaisers last year. Like that album I'm sure it will suffer huge radio over-exposure, but that's the fate of all of good pop/rock music I guess.

As can be seen from some of the previous comments, it doesn't appeal to all - but if, like me, you came away from the Foals album needing an Antidote, then this Kooks album is definitely IT.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Poo Album by a Poo band, 7 May 2008
By Alexander Kitain "alex kitain" (hamburg, germany) - See all my reviews
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Since seeing the Kooks live once and booing them off the stage after they played Naive for the second time and claimed they had no more songs, I completely lost all faith in this band that seemed quite promising at the start.
Live they were the worst band I have ever seen, completely full of themselves with no charisma or personality.
Luke Pritchard is an arrogant loser who seems to believe a successful first album implies being able to delivery a crap follow-up and get away with it. Sadly people are buying into it.

The songs are all boring and lack immagination. The word "Always" seems to be part of every chorus and the titles are a perfect introduction into the stupid lyrics.

Konk??? I thought Portishead's "Third" was a boring title but at least the album is great and Beth Gibbons is a one of a kind on stage.

The Kooks should better think about a change in career.
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5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic up lifiting feeling to this album
this album has real kick, punch and the ability to cheer the party up,
such a spectacular sound from such young talent, the production sound is amazing,
tight and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by son charlie

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't be too put off
I was a little put off by the negative reviews on here but whilst on a long flight recently I decided to give Konk a whirl. I really isn't bad! Read more
Published 6 months ago by The usual suspect

1.0 out of 5 stars crap - they've blown it!
after a cracking first album the kooks have gone the same way as so many others - regurgitating all the tricks that made there debut different but forgetting to write the songs -... Read more
Published 10 months ago by D. P. Woolford

3.0 out of 5 stars Konking out
The Kooks always had a tough task. After the hit of their debut and how it saturated the market, the follow up was always running the risk of being quickly dismissed as much of... Read more
Published 10 months ago by M. Speller

4.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more
Published 12 months ago by chuckles

1.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more
Published 15 months ago by H. Nederlof

3.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Iain Campbell

3.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Farrell

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Summer pop!
Whilst perhaps not as full of immediately infectious tunes as "Inside In/Inside Out", this is nevertheless a gorgeous album of pop with a "summer feel". Read more
Published 17 months ago by alextorres

1.0 out of 5 stars Konked out of ideas! HAHA!+Indies dead
Well, well, well! How nice it is to see that these have finally been exposed for the third rate Indie band that they really are! Read more
Published 17 months ago by L. porter

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