THE KOOKS
INSIDE IN/INSIDE OUT
UMC/VIRGIN
★★★★
The career of The Kooks is instructional in showing how it’s possible for any band to become hip, if they stick around long enough. Given their omniscience over the past 15 years, it’s easy to forget how ABBA and The Bee Gees were critically mocked for years, before the Guilty Pleasures movement of the early 00s.