The Kooks

With the roar of arenas echoing in his ears and 1 billion streams rattling around his pockets, Luke Pritchard shakes his tangled locks with the disbelief of the charmed, as amazed as anybody that 2018 is The Kooks’ time to shine. “In the middle of making this album, the band became big again,” he says. “I don't know how the fuck that happened. We were making an album to save ourselves, and it gave us confidence towards to end. I didn't feel vindicated or ‘I showed them’, it just felt right. It felt like something had happened.”