Hugh Harris, the guitarist of British rock band The Kooks, has embarked on his very first solo endeavour. He just released a new single entitled “Earth Like You“, which is available now via AWAL Recordings.

After rocking out for the Brighton group since 2004, Hugh Harris has finally released his own work as a soloist. “Earth Like You” has been picked to introduce Harris’s attempt outside The Kooks, and yes, the track is so well crafted with an easy-breezy production, making it a perfect tune for this summertime.

About the song, the guitarist told Dork that it is the first chapter to his own music. “When I was young I used to get these crazy high temperatures and hear loud noises and feel like my limbs were larger than they were or I was sinking through the ground. That’s kind of continued into my adult life.”

He continued, “The way I deal with that is to imagine it’s some kind of communicative thing with another species and that, in a really strange way, helps to relieve the stress of it. That song came from that feeling, then I invented the story of someone falling in love with an alien, but they can’t be together because the alien doesn’t want to live on planet earth until we can learn to look after each other, feel love, and take care of our planet. So they have to travel to different worlds to settle.”

Harris is one of The Kooks’ two founding members left in the band alongside Luke Pritchard. Their most recent album is ‘Let’s Go Sunshine‘ released back in 2018.