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  • Summary: This long-awaited fourth album from the London-based outfit headed by Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres is an even more eclectic mix of styles than previous efforts. The 13 new tracks include the excellent (and excellently titled) lead single "Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III," and aThis long-awaited fourth album from the London-based outfit headed by Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres is an even more eclectic mix of styles than previous efforts. The 13 new tracks include the excellent (and excellently titled) lead single "Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III," and a reworking of "People Power (In The Disco Hour)" from Singh and Ayres' Clinton side project. Expand

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Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III
Reporting damage it is soft rock shit The TSB Rock School The overgrown supershit The super models well they can't get enough of it The overgrown... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 23
  2. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. Mood music, maybe. How to be conscious and happy at the same time.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    Sounds even more like Quentin Tarantino directing a Bollywood Superfly starring Beck. [3 May 2002, p.88]
  3. This all flows well and is quite a good piece of mood music, yet there's no hiding that for all their political stances and past reputation, Cornershop doesn't really have all that much to say this time around, nor have they delivered more than a handful of songs to have all this stick.
  4. Uncut
    80
    As with Daft Punk's Discovery and Playgrou's eponymous 2001 debut LP, Handcream For A Generation puts fun back on the agenda, offering a blurry picture of marathon socialising and the frazzled warmth of the morning after the night before. [Album of the Month, May 2002, p.88]
  5. This is happy music for hard times, a ray of warm and righteous sunshine just when it was needed most.
  6. Handcream is leaner and less exuberant than When I Was Born, lower on warm drone and Indian elements generally and higher on Singh's sardonic mode.
  7. What once felt like maverick defiance on the part of the 'Shop now leaves them looking directionless, with Tjinder sounding increasingly like an unattractive combination of smugness and bitterness.

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  1. Jul 18, 2021
    10
    Art, happiness, disco, culture, criticism and good production, all together in one album.