Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4563 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk 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

CLASH MAGAZINE
"The Kooks restore your faith in British pop"

CD Description
'Konk' is the second album from Brighton-based indie-popsters The Kooks. Produced at Ray Davies famous studio of the same name, the album is a sprightly-yet-assured follow-up to the platinum-selling 'Inside In/Inside Out'. Includes the single 'Always Where I Need To Be'.

Customer Reviews

Gets more boring with each listen
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.

Great stuff - here to stay.
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.

Poo Album by a Poo band
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.