Urban Turban: The Singhles Club
- Cornershop
- Band Name: Cornershop
- Record Label: Ample Play
- Release Date: May 15, 2012
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May 22, 201283Several [guest singers] distinguish themselves‑-SoKo all breathy, Lorraine nice and rough‑-as does (Tjinder) Singh, changing up the rhythms as he "milks" his usual tiny store of melody.
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Jul 19, 201280Urban Turban is another irresistible Cornershop mash-up. [Aug 2012, p.86]
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May 29, 201280I can assure you that you will not stand still while listening to this album.
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May 29, 201280Urban Turban is more grin-inducing than a piano-playing cat.
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May 11, 201280Full of life and sunshine. [No.87, p.53]
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May 24, 201270Inconsistency's a little too much the watchword, but there are none more Something For Everyone.
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May 16, 201270After 21 years, it's hard to believe Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres are still capable of producing moments as vivid and relevant as these.
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May 16, 201270The tracks are well made and good stuff, but on the whole Urban Turban feels a little too all over the shop to pack the wallop it deserves.
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May 15, 201270Urban Turban is consolidation for Cornershop, pulling together old and new tracks and showing as many hands as they can.
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May 14, 201270Mostly, it's funky pop, half-deconstructed and relentlessly optimistic. [Jun 2012, p.71
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May 11, 201270There's the occasional meander and they'd surely revel in a bigger production budget, but there's nobody remotely like them and few who seem to actually enjoy being in a band more.
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May 11, 201270Urban Turban feels especially emblematic of a band that's fully liberated itself from any commercial or audience expectations and shifted its experimental ethos into overdrive.
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May 15, 201267All of this is creative and fun, but also a little half-baked, and ultimately impersonal.
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Jul 25, 201260Cornershop have stocked up on musical friends and touchpoints to deliver a heterogeneous album that confirms, wherever they go next, there's plenty more in the 'Shop window to see.
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Jun 26, 201260Perhaps there's a danger here and there of Singh and Ayres getting their heads down and too deep in the blissed-out funk ... but really they just want to see what sticks. That's all they've ever tried, and most of it does.
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Jun 4, 201260If Singh's genial, lounge-y tunes don't always hit groove nirvana, his wandering heart is at least in the right place.
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May 14, 201260This feels modern but in a distinctly '90s fashion: the melds and mashups of club music and psychedelia forecast a future straight out of 1996.
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May 11, 201260With Urban Turbanm, Tjinder Singh reinforces his position as one of the UK's more engaging musical minds.