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Track Listing
1. Heavy Soup
2. Staging the Plaguing of the Raised Platform
3. Music Plus 1
4. Lessons Learned From Rocky 1 to Rocky III
5. Wogs Will Walk
6. Motion the 11
7. People Power
8. Sounds Super Recordings
9. London Radar, The
10. Spectral Mornings
11. Slip the Drummer One
12. Heavy Soup - (outro)
13. Bonus Track
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Noel Gallagher, Otis Clay | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Cornershop includes: Tjinder Singh.
Additional personnel includes: Noel Gallagher, Paul McGuigan, Otis Clay.
Producers include: Tjinder Singh, Rob Swift.
Industry Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's The 50 Best Albums of 2002.
Q (12/01/2002)
...Cornershopt still draws from everything and the multi-cultural kitchen sink....this is a fun, multi-dimensional album that unpeels like an onion, revealing one surprise after another...
CMJ (04/22/2002)
...zigzagging between sounds and ideas with a joyous warmth....fizzes by in a flash...
NME (03/02/2002)
8 out 10 - ...A foot-stomping, bum-shaking good time from beginning to end...
Alternative Press (05/01/2002)
...Cornershop [sound] even more like Quentin Tarantino directing a Bollywood SUPERFLY starring Beck... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (05/03/2002)
...[Handcream...] embraces hip hop, funk, house, DJ-style reggae, '70s rock, [and] disco...and still manages to provide a more coherent and enjoyable listneing experience than mainstream dance bods...
Mojo (04/01/2002)
4 out of 5 stars - ...A meaty, truly multi-dimensional project...with a chugging, confident heart...
Q (04/01/2002)
6 out of 10 - ...Singh...leads an erratic audio tour of an ultra-contemporary London...[weaving] tracks full of hip-hop corssfades, meandering techno interludes, and cryptic political jibes sung by children's choirs...
Spin (05/01/2002)
3.5 stars out of 5 - ...A festive crash of cultures, a Babel of loops and ethnic body language. Dixie, R&B, Bollywodd kitsch, Crooklyn hip-hop, Eurotrash electronics...Singh shakes 'em all up like rats in a box, finding kicks and connection in aggresive pastiche...
Rolling Stone (04/25/2002)
Ranked #64 in Uncut's 100 Best Albums of the Year
Uncut (01/01/2003)
Ranked #13 in Mojo's Best Albums of 2002
Mojo (01/01/2003)
...zigzagging between sounds and ideas with a joyous warmth....fizzes by in a flash...
NME (03/02/2002)
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