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Cornershop & the Double-O Groove Of Image
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  • Summary: The British indie rock band collaborate with Bubbley Kaur to create a Punjabi folk-tinged new album.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Mar 25, 2011
    90
    Cornershop & the Double O Groove Of is going to very difficult to knock out of this reviewer's top ten of 2011. Bloody brilliant!
  2. Uncut
    Apr 7, 2011
    80
    It fuses disparate cultures with such joyous irreverence that, for 40 inspirational minutes, entire notions of national borders and racial divides cease to exist. [Apr 2011, p.77]
  3. Mojo
    Apr 22, 2011
    80
    Cornershop's Midlands-Asian mainspring, looks back to the homeland with an album joyously sung all in Punjabi. [Apr 2011, p.100]
  4. Mar 15, 2011
    70
    Whether this latest release is merely another development or a sign of things to come, it is their most beguiling collection of songs for a number of years, a labour of love, and a record that that deserves more exposure than it's probably going to get.
  5. The Wire
    Apr 28, 2011
    70
    The album works best when the trio downshift to embrace Kaur's vocals and rhythmical sitar twangs. [Mar 2011, p.61]
  6. Mar 15, 2011
    70
    Once a mere band, Cornershop here reimagines itself, brilliantly, as a franchise.
  7. Mar 15, 2011
    60
    Minus the mock-heroic guitars, frontman Tjinder Singh's globalist critiques lose some of their pop-political punch.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Whether you understand Punjabi or not, it makes you feel as if you were in your own world safe and sound. Cornershop did it again since "WhenWhether you understand Punjabi or not, it makes you feel as if you were in your own world safe and sound. Cornershop did it again since "When I Was Born For The 7th Time" . Expand