Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Wouldn't it be cool, if I could let it go?


Sometimes its hard to live and sometimes its hard to love you
I keep pushing you away doing things so you won't stay with me
Ahahaaaaahhhaaaa
Ahahaaaaahhhaaaa
And wouldn't it be cool if I could let it go?

So the last time I mentioned The Kooks I was saying "September? What? I can't wait that long for a new album!"; but it seems they have done a Kasabian on us. And by that I mean they have released a single ahead of the album, it's not on the album but it's thrown out to the public as a bit of a tester and as an example of what is to be expected of the new album Junk of the Heart. Good thinking Batman. Although what happened to standing up tall, saying this is who we are, this is our sound.... like it or lump it? They have got a huge fan base from just a few years ago, have regularly played at Ibiza rocks and got a great reception - and if they're worried they can have my word that I regularly sing "And I am alllwaaysss where, I need to be. And I always thought I would end up with you even-tua-lly" to the best of mine and my lung's abilities in the shower! Happy? No I really wouldn't be.

Besides the marketing and the technicals of the album, I like what I here in new single "Saboteur". It's a little dark, it's edgier and more pumped up than what we last heard of them. But what else would you expect from a song about sabotage? I love it. Luke Pritchard attempts a bit of Piano, his voice as distinctive as ever and the band give it their all for the excitable crowd jumping around just at their presence! I said it before and I'll say it again, I'm very much looking forward to the album in September, the interviews the gigs and the tour! 

The Kooks were about when I was a teen, they were band blaring out of the little car stereo on the drive back from days at the beach with friends and the songs you thought you could perform on the Kareoke after 4 or 5 wines. Good to have the boys back on the radio, hopefully you'll be at next years Ibiza Rocks where want to be next summer!
So here it is!

Gracie, FiftysAtHeart xx



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