"I'm feeling very chilled right now," says Luke Pritchard, looking suitably serene on a West London pub couch with pint in hand. "Like, in terms of looking back." Eleven years after the debut album that introduced The Kooks as teenage contenders for the indie pop crown, the band's singer and chief songwriter is considering the distance travelled -- personally and creatively -- between then and now, and admits that only recently has he "turned a corner" and learned to fully appreciate their breakthrough release. "You're always running forward, and you don't want to look back," he explains, "and I think every album that we