Cornershop & the Double-O Groove Of
by Cornershop
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. Pitchfork
    May 4, 2011
    76
    There's a lot to like here but only a few tracks to love, and for every two songs that sound delightfully out of time, there's one that just sounds out of time.
  2. 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]
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  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]
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  5. 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]
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  6. The Telegraph (UK)
    Mar 25, 2011
    80
    Knocking around for twenty years and now down to a duo, Cornershop are still coming up with brilliantly playful pop.
  7. PopMatters
    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!
  8. Dusted Magazine
    Mar 24, 2011
    80
    Cornershop and the Double-O Groove Of finds the band's east/west fusion developed far past the experimental stage into deft and heartfelt songcraft.
  9. Rolling Stone
    Mar 15, 2011
    70
    Once a mere band, Cornershop here reimagines itself, brilliantly, as a franchise.
  10. Drowned In Sound
    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.
  11. BBC Music
    Mar 15, 2011
    70
    A zingy fusion of disparate styles.
  12. AllMusic
    Mar 14, 2011
    70
    The vocals and flourishes are strongly Punjabi -- songs are often sung in the language, not English as they usually are on a Cornershop LP -- but these are essentially trappings for a collection of multicultural dance-pop not too dissimilar from the group's albums since 1997.
  13. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Mar 14, 2011
    80
    Enchanting stuff.

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  1. JEMR
    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" .… Full Review »
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