“Bad Habit” by The Kooks

"Bad Habit" was the third single from Listen, the Kooks' 2014 album, released that July, and it finds the British band in a loose, funky strut. Producer Inflo is the key: he co-wrote it with Luke Pritchard and Peter Denton, plays percussion, and produced it with Pritchard as co-producer.

Pritchard sings and plays guitar and tambourine, Denton handles bass and guitar, and Alexis Nunez adds drums, but the real kick comes from the voices around them: the Behind The Force Choir, Kate Fletcher and Betty Thorpe, and Hugh Harris on backing vocals, turning the chorus into a gospel-tinged stomp. Steve Fitzmaurice mixed it. It reached No. 24 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and No. 20 in Belgium, and went silver in the UK.

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