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The Kooks Reveal Tarantino Inspired Video For Around Town

• 12th May 2014

Inspired by directors Luke Besson and Quentin Tarantino, The Kooks have revealed this very arty new heist video for latest single Around Town.

If previous track ‘Down’ failed to win you over then we defy you to not enjoy this one, especially with such a joyous video homage.

The band explains the creative approach they took when making the video: “We decided rather than simply put a video to music we would do something more cinematic. It was very much a collaboration with director Ryan Hope.“

The single is taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Listen’ on September 1st on Virgin/EMI, whilst ‘Around Town’ is released June 23rd.

“To me,” comments front man Luke Pritchard on the band’s change of direction on the new album “this album is about pure expression. Even the way we made the album felt fresh. Rather than us just being a band in a room, playing our guitars with the vocal over the top, which is what we’d always done before, we were really listening to what was going on around us, picking up ideas. The whole thing was much more natural.

Watch the video here: