WATCH: The Kooks Release New Video For “See Me Now”

It’s always interesting when a band does music that is the opposite of what you’ve been previously exposed to. The Kooks’ video for “See Me Now” is both visually and musically the polar opposite of the video that they did for “Bad Habit.”

Featuring lead singer Luke Pritchard wandering around the illuminated streets of Tokyo at night, the video for “See Me Now” shows The Kooks in a very different light than what they’ve previously shown. What has thus far been a string of heavy-rocking tunes that have lyrics that provoke some sort of thought on a much larger philosophical scale, “See Me Now” is a bare-bones kind of recording with a back beat that kicks in much later in the song (the drums don’t come in until about the two-minute mark). A sparse recording that primarily features just the piano and Pritchard’s vocals, “See Me Now” takes a different sonic stance than “Down” and “Bad Habit,”. Where the latter songs feature a heavy drum beat with thick guitars, the former subs in a Coldplay-esque piano intro that rings throughout the song.

The Kooks newest record, Listen is due out very soon.