Konked?

It seems they can. After the success of 'Inside In/Inside Out' the Kooks (Luke Pritchard, Hugh Harris, Paul Garred, and the new Pete Denton) had a big expectation to follow. The debut album peaked at #2 in the UK album charts, and 'Naive' reached #7 on the UK singles chart.

So what about the new stuff?

Well, their first single off the new album, named 'Konk' after the recording studio, reached #3 in the UK charts. 'Always Where I Need To Be' is a perfect indie song - catchy chorus, easy words (do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do...), and a great melody. No wonder it reached so high.

The first song on the album, though, is 'See the Sun'. It's a lovey-'You can have everything' song, with Luke Pritchard whining on about loosing a girl, after he treated her so well. And it seems this new album is a big change there - Inside In/Inside Out was full of up-beat, high-energy songs. But the new album has a classy mix of both.

Then on the album, the 'big hit' followed by the equally catchy 'Mr. Maker', which has less energy than the song it follows, but it's the kind of tune at still gets stuck in your head. 'Mr. Maker' is the perfect man, 'Because of the love he gave away'?
Then comes the more-like 'Always Where I Need to Be', 'Do You Wanna?' with Luke asking if you want to make love to him. This an immediate like-song, and the first song on the album I remembered, after the releases I already knew.

About halfway through the album, it becomes quiet and love-love-love in indie, Kook-ie kind of ballads. And that goes on until the end of the album, almost. This is a big change for the Kooks, as on the first album, the end songs were not-so-good as the first, and it was very first-timer. Now, the lads have been around the process before, and have a bit more experiance.

Although the second album is quite a big change from the first, it is better. deep thoughts and longing melody's suit the Kooks, and Luke Prtichard's big dreams definatly came true.