British indie pop pioneers the crazy ones This weekend they will be releasing their sixth album, 10 Tracks to Echo in the Darkvia Lonely Cat/AWAL Records (listen here), an electronically quirky twist of its iconic sound. The band took a fresh approach to releasing the album; It’s released in three parts, the first two being three-track EPs and the last part – which has just been released – adding four more tracks to make up the full LP.
Alongside the album, the band is revealing the music video for their latest single “Cold Heart.” Directed by Polocho and filmed in London, the visual finds the band inside a futuristic space station as alien beings begin “experiments” with them. Tribute to the 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: space flightThe video captures the “cold heart” of AI, which trembles in frustration when aliens find themselves heating up “humans” and eventually losing themselves to the dance while the band plays their song.
After a world tour, the release of their album Let’s go to the rising sun (one of the ten most listened to UK albums at the time), and saw the band topping the charts at festivals across Europe. The live-streaming boom opened The Kooks to a new audience of young fans of their brand of indie pop, who were excited to see them perform live.
Exiting the penalty-round schedule, striker Luke Pritchard vowed to breathe a little. But instead, he found himself again in the studio: “I started going to Berlin for three or four days at a time. I was so affected by Brexit and wanted to make a statement by creating a European record,” he explains, who adds :”We’re a European band, we practically live there and have a lot of love for Europe, so we wanted to keep that connection.”
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