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Konk | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kooks
Label: Virgin
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
Buy New: £4.97
You Save: £4.02 (45%)
New (34) Used (4) from £4.45
Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 241
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099951937522
ASIN: B0010YOJNO
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| 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 |
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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
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 Great stuff - here to stay. April 22, 2008
AlanMusicMan (Salisbury UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
great album April 23, 2008
A. Shipley (Worcester, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a great album, almost living up the the greatness of the kooks's first album. All the songs are catchy and well written, my favourite have to be Mr Maker, stormy weather and shine on, recommended for people who haven't listened to the kooks before, and also for their previous fans
This is awesome April 27, 2008
Mrs. Sa Overend
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
You other guys have no idea what your talking about. I've listened to it loads of times and it just gets better and better. Sure, it is different to the first album, but i think its just as good. They've used a lot more electric sounds for this album, but its still good, a new direction for them. And for anyone dissing the album, id like to see you write an album.
Excellent follow-up March 15, 2008
Mr. Robert S. Johnson
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
Great March 26, 2008
D. C. bonham (Darlington, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have just listened to this new Album, and I have to say I like what I hear, although not really any new sounds, who cares, the sound from the first album was awesome, they had no reason to change it. I know loads of people who think that second albums should be more grown up, but why, we all fell in love with their 'non-grown up' sound from the first album.
Do You Wanna
Love It All
Mr. Maker
All Great Songs
xx
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