Album Review: The Kooks’ Let’s Go Sunshine Is A Praise To Youth

Friends are the people you choose to be your family, and, as your grow up, that choice becomes richer, deeper, and more selective. You become bounded to people not by blood but by love and madness. Suddenly, you are not weird and alone as much as witty and accompanied. In The Kooks’ Let’s Go Sunshine, there is an overall narrative of youth finding each other to unite under hope and bliss.

Let’s Go Sunshine is a guitar driven pop haze, giving you the ease and dreaminess of a SoCal beach. Lyrics swish over your like crystalized waves thanks to Luke Pritchard’s voice. He sings like a man floating through an ocean of optimism and independence, which is at the heart of being young. Being in your twenties, is the beginning of a life molded by your hands as if choices are actually made of clay. Hence, you feel sculpted by the kick drums, hand-clapping baselines, and cheer-inducing verses of “Kids,” “Believe,” and “Four Leaf Clover.” For however much you may spiritually break, “Fractured And Dazed” and “Weight of The World,” a soul’s bones will heal. 
The Kooks – All the Time

One of the reasons Let’s Go Sunshine is such an enrapturing album is because The Kooks have been around for nearly 15 years, but have  stapled an eternal sound that will always sing to juvenescence. This is no easy feat! To be able to grow jejunely and in creativity while having a core aesthetic is a sign of genius, and Let’s Go Sunshine solidifies that for a band that, technically, just released a greatest hits album. This record is, for sure, the album of the week. It is so euphorically pop and brims with buoyancy. Every guitar chord is leap of faith, and verse uttered by Pritchard is a warm landing.
The Kooks – No Pressure

Let’s Go Sunshine is a vigorous narrative of having no idea how to heal your wounds, what to expect for tomorrow, and completely giving into loving and knowing strangers as friends, and admitting that all the above can be exciting. Why? Because as much as you do not know how bad tomorrow can be is also as much as you do not know how well it can go! For More Information on The Kooks And To Buy Let’s Go Sunshine On August 31 Click Here.