The Kooks are coming back. In fact, they are back. They’ve announced an album “Listen” which is due for release in early Autumn this year, and the tracks unveiled from this upcoming release “Down” and “Around Town” show that the group from Brighton have definitely taken a new approach in their music. Sounds pretty similar to Arctic Monkeys’ change on AM with those R&B vibes going on on both tunes. But whatever. It is a good time to be a Kooks fan.

“Eddie’s Gun” was the first track I ever heard by The Kooks. It was their first single almost ten years ago. The video appeared on MTV2’s new music section/programme thing the channel would do when there was a new band that was on the rise, or if new music videos were out in general. I think I saw the full video once that time, and then a second of it appeared in an advert or something. But I liked it, thought it was cool. Then time was getting closer towards the release of “Inside In/Inside Out“; “Naïve” and “She Moves in Her Own Way” were becoming popular tracks and the band were gaining more and more popularity. The album came out, “Eddie’s Gun” was on there…. but the band had re-recorded it to make it sound better. Understandable…. but it wasn’t the same.

The album version’s alright, but it’s the original/demo version that I have on my iPod. Just because it reminds me of when I first saw its music video and introduced me to The Kooks’ music.

It’s about erectile dysfunction. Just saying.

Here’s the album version, if you want to hear it.