Album Review: Let's Go Sunshine by The Kooks

On their fifth set, Kinks-obsessed Brighton lads the Kooks take a step back from 2014's beat-driven Listen and balance the occasional big moments with confident restraint. Ideal for fans of late-era Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, and Blossoms, Let's Go Sunshine isn't as cheerful as the title suggests: a mostly tame affair packed with patient groovers and some lush production, this is a full-album experience with a few punchy standouts. Forgoing the youthful cheek that defined their earlier releases, Sunshine can be a bit of a slog: at 15 tracks, it gets bogged down by the contemplative exercises, but resuscitated by the festival-sized anthems punctuated throughout.

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British pop rock band the Kooks have always been trying to reclaim the same level of success that they achieved with their first album Inside In/Inside Out, released in 2006. Since then, they just haven't quite met the mark, and their fifth studio album, Let's Go Sunshine, is no exception.   The Kooks have always excelled at well structured pop rock, but they're also a little too comfortable in the basic pop formula. Let's Go Sunshine scarcely veers into experimental territory, and as a result, the tracks lack unique characteristics ….

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The Kooks are a band that have oft been romanticised by a generation of fans. For those of us of a certain age, The Kooks' 'Inside In/Inside Out' felt like a water cooler moment, a coming of age, if you will. Their latest release, 'Let's Go Sunshine' does not feel the same, though that is clearly not the band's intention. Though this release is not as progressive or experimental as it's predecessor, 'Listen', which proved to be divisive, it has its high points.

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