Cornershop, Handcream for a Generation - 1h 1m 8s

Tracks & Durations

1. Heavy Soup	3:23
2. Staging the Plaguing of the Raised Platform	4:37
3. Music Plus 1	4:45
4. Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III	4:26
5. Wogs Will Walk	4:54
6. Motion the 11	5:47
7. People Power	3:55
8. Sounds Super Recordings	1:32
9. The London Radar	4:09
10. Spectral Mornings	14:25
11. Slip the Drummer One	3:43
12. Heavy Soup (Outro)	2:10
13. Bonus Track	3:15

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Review

For the pessimists who thought 1998's "Brimful of Asha" might have made Cornershop one-hit wonders, Handcream for a Generation acts as a dazzling Technicolor rejoinder. This fourth album by Tjinder Singh's group is a sure-footed survey of international party styles. Through 13 tracks, they manage to locate the secret connections between funk, hip-hop turntablism, boogie rock, roots reggae, French house, Punjabi folk, heavy psychedelia, and, yes, good old-fashioned indie-pop. On paper it looks dauntingly ambitious, and in the hands of any other band it probably would be. But Singh has a talent for finding universal accessibility at the heart of any genre as well as a pathological fear of the clichéd and portentous. So Handcream begins with deep soul singer Otis Clay making the introductions on "Heavy Soup," cranks up a hoary old Stones riff for an extended rant about the music biz on "Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III," and even finds a use for Noel Gallagher on the 15-minute soaring raga of "Spectral Mornings." Best of all, the whole album's imbued with a spirit that's both celebratory and contrary, one that challenges and stimulates even while it's making you dance on the table. --John Mulvey

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Handcream for a Generation

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 60m 54s (-1m 46s)

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