CD Cover Evaluation; The Kooks

The Kooks; Konk

Konk is the second album by The Kooks, it was released in April 2008. The album got to number 1 in the UK album chart.

Like other bands within the genre of indie The Kooks have gone for a quite plain simple cover. Although they've done this it still looks appealing and their audience will be attracted to purchase it. The vast majority of the cover is in black with parts of blue and white. Both black and white are very popular colours to have on album covers within the genre of indie, for example Arctic Monkeys. Black has many connotations connected to it, commonly black portrays a feeling of mystery therefore this could create an enigma for the listener as they don't know what to expect from their music. Also all the black on the cover could be portraying that its night time, and because they're standing in a doorway it gives the impression that its a night club. Therefore this could be suggesting that their music on this album would be played a places like this.

On this particular cover they have decided to have themselves on it, by doing this it i feel it helps the listener to connect more with the music and to be able to relate their songs back to the people themselves.

The text on the cover is a very important factor because its similar to the other text which has appeared on their other albums, therefore when listeners see the album they will intently be attracted to it because they will recognise the text.
With the text being white it stands out from the rest of the cover. The colour white connotes something new and unique, they would of picked this colour on purpose because of its connotations.