The Kooks: Junk of the Heart – review

(Virgin)The last words on this album, delivered with a figurative stamp of the foot, are "No more Mr Nice Guy". So that's us told – the Kooks want out of the corner they painted themselves into by making all that bouncy pop on their first album. But sentiments like that, and song with titles such as Fuck the World Off, probably won't dissuade the schoolgirls who've stuck with them since 2006. As long as this band continue to sound like the boys next door who've got hold of a guitar and som...

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