After a two-year absence from music, The Kooks have opened up about work on their forthcoming new album. 

This release, which is expected to arrive in the latter part of 2011, will be their first since the band’s 2008 album ‘Konk’ and has been influenced by a variety of artists.

Speaking to XFM, front man Luke Pritchard revealed:

“Personally I've always had a real thing of keeping it really organic but this album we're quite Beck influenced in a way, using loops - live drum takes but looping it - and I've got quite obsessed with this David Lynch-y eerie synthesiser thing.”

“It's quite different but it's still going to be the same kind of roots... we've been getting involved with using different instrumentation and things like that but it's still going to be Kooks.”

 Watch the band's video for 'She Moves In Her Own Way' here: