Announced Denton no longer playing

The band addressed Denton’s absence by announcing on 3 January 2019 via their Twitter account that Denton was no longer playing with the band. On the same day, Denton responded via his personal account that the position was “complicated” and that his advisers had told him not to discuss the matter for the time being. In 2020, it was revealed that Denton’s departure from The Kooks was partly so that he could spend more time with his wife and children, which Pritchard corroborated two years later while also stating that “things broke down” between the band and Denton, and “essentially he lost the love for it.”