The Kooks Shine on Konk
Brighton four-piece The Kook's sophmore album 'Konk' is a huge success, almost every song is catchy with a sing along tune. The band are back in full force, sans the original bassist with this very upbeat indie pop album. A lot of passion has been cramed into the Kook's second offering, highlights include Always Where I Need To Be, Mr. Maker, Sway & Shine.

Rock / Pop
Good Rock kinda pop but I say that in a good way. They aren't screaming at you.

Pretty good follow up cd
Has some hits, some misses, a nice follow up cd from Inside Out. Can't wait to see them live!

Good, but overambitious approach for a lazy execution
The Kooks's first album is still one of my favorite albums- it took "not taking itself seriously" very seriously, and this is gave it an innocent and playful, yet gritty sound.
Their second album, Konk, tries to be serious. (Case in point: now they've added the word "The" to their band's name!) It talks a lot, but after the first track, it slacks off. See the Sun (the first track) is probably their best song to date. Following Always Where I Need to Be, the album goes through the motions of being the last album, only trying to sound more refined- which is not what The Kooks were about. They do hit their intended mark on the songs Gap and Sway, but other than that, the songs are- well, not bad, but not as good as they could be. The second last song, Tick of Time, all but abandons their approach to this album and makes me wish that they were doing more songs like this on this album, and wish they were singing about erectile dysfunction and people bombing their neighbors again, instead of everything being all about "love, love, love" or "touch, touch, touch."

The bonus CD is a kind of limbo between Inside In and Konk. It starts off with a Seaside sound-alike. The next song sounds like a toned-down mix between See the World and Sofa Song. It goes on like this until Hateful of Love- a more elegant version of Got no Love. After that, there's the alternate version of Sea the Sun and the bluesy demo Brooklyn which bring everything full circle back to Konk.
Overall, the bonus CD is worth about two dollars (or 1.16 pounds or 1.46 euros or whatever you use), so if the price of the deluxe edition is more than $2 more than the regular, don't bother.
Overall overall, Konk is a catchy CD- you'll listen to it well for a few months- but it doesn't have the lasting power of its predecessor. If you don't have either album, buy Inside In/Inside Out first.

Second cd also good...
Kooks - British english vocals, good guitar tunes....

Hot blooded honest music... excellent 2nd album... KONK...

2 cd version is really really good choice... How can a person loose the chance of listening NO LONGER and FA LA LA ?...

ONE LAST TIME is going to be song of my life...