Andrew Whitton
The Kooks have premiered a video for No Pressure, the latest track from this month’s Let’s Go Sunshine LP.
The band have UK shows coming up in Belfast, London, Oban, Middlesbrough and Bexhill On Sea in September to push their fifth studio record, one which frontman Luke Prithcard said was aimed at, ‘defining who we are’.
“We were asking the questions,” he continued. “It was a fractured start. We went into the studio in 2015, continuing down the path we set out on our last studio album “Listen” and discovered it wasn’t what we wanted to make and wasn’t really The Kooks. So we scrapped it and started again. I really went on a mission to write the best songs I’d ever written before bringing them to the band. I stewed over every word.”
“It had to be our Rubber Soul, Lola, Definitely Maybe. Proper British lineage. I came from a dark place at the start, had a lotta heartbreak, and then falling in love in the middle of the album…the lyrics reflect that. From ‘Fractured And Dazed’ to ‘No Pressure’, it’s gotta be our most exciting album, and it should get you dancing.”
