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Rating: "Miami Beach, Chicks with Dicks!!!" Wha Hooo! You feel like shouting out Damon Albarn-style when you hear the new Cornershop album. Finally, something fresh, witty, and ironic without overdoing it, without radically distancing themselves from the past. In short, you can tell it's them even though the sitar and Indian instruments that made them famous are scarce. But what a zest for life they emanate!! The quote at the beginning of the review is from the single that preceded the album titled "Lessons learned from Rocky I to Rocky III," which, as often happens, is the least interesting of Tjinder Singh and company’s work. Defining the sound of this album as "new" is still challenging. It is undoubtedly retro, reminiscent of the vibe of the Village People or Donna Summer and winks at modern disco with some tracks (Music Plus). There are also self-references to "Brimful of Asha" (Staging the Plaguing...) and the legendary "Jullandar Shere" ("Spectral Mornings", a true masterpiece of the 2000s). A mix of fuzzy tunes and loops repeated endlessly in a somewhat obsessive manner, without unnecessarily insisting on Indian-sounding effects. For those collectors familiar with the side project called Clinton, this album seems to combine the thematic wanderings of the side project with Cornershop's solidity. The song "People Power" actually comes from Clinton. All this without being trivial, which nowadays seems to be the only weapon for standing out. Anyone who has heard the latest Oasis single knows what I mean. The only stylistic slip: song 6 in reggae style.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
04 Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III (04:24)
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 supershit
Against the GTX
It is rugged GT
Lessons learned from Rocky I to Rocky III
Lesson 1. The A&Rs are in it to the hips
The overgrown Supershit (3x)
Yea, the overgrown Supershit
Who spent the Rock School
In the rock pool
Miami beach
Chicks with dicks
Who’s testing
when it’s Ed that’s flexing
The overgrown Supershit
Yea, the overgrown Supershit
The overgrown Supershit
Yea, the overgrown Supershit
Lessons learned from Rocky I to Rocky III
Sheepskin shoes tend to run the industry
Lesson 2. Cop the groove
Lesson 3 is to ignore 4.
Round 5 going into 6
I understand guns in the A&R office
7. we’re cooking with Amitabh Bachchan
8. it’s a real heavy weight
9. we’re rocking New York time
10x10 It’s like St. John said
The overgrown Supershit (2x)
Yea, the overgrown Supershit
The overgrown Supershit
Message from the wreckage
It is soft rock shit
TSB Rock School
Overgrown supershit
The super models well they can’t get enough of it
The overgrown Supershit
Ohh ohhh yea yea
Yea, the overgrown Supershit
Ohh ohhh yea yea
The overgrown Supershit
Ohh ohhh yea yea
Ohh ohhh yea yea
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