Cornershop / Woman's Gotta Have it

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Artist

Cornershop

Album Title:

Woman's Gotta Have it

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Primary Genre

Alternative & Punk: Indie

Format

Released

10/24/1995

Label

Luaka Bop, Inc. / Warner Bros. Records, Inc.

Catalog No

9 46018-2

Bar Code No

0 9362-46018-2 1

Packaging

Jewelcase

Tracks

1.	6 A.M. Jullandar Shere (6:23)
2.	Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu (3:24)
3.	Roof Rack (3:48)
4.	My Dancing Days Are Done (3:31)
5.	Call All Destroyer (2:25)
6.	Camp Orange (3:47)
7.	Wog (3:15)
8.	Jansimram King (3:36)
9.	Looking for a Way in (7:48)
10.	7:20 A.M. Jullandar Shere (13:15)

Date Acquired

05/04/2009

Personal Rating

Acquired from

Udadoo (Amazon)

Purchase Price

5.98

Web Links

All Music Guide Entry
Discogs Entry:

Reviews

All Music Guide Review:

Review by Denise Sullivan
Tjinder Singh's Cornershop has created the perfect hybrid of Western indie rock and swirling Eastern traditional music: Hindi-pop. It's not like what the Beatles did with sitars nor is it classifiable as worldbeat: Cornershop is unique. "Jullandar Shere" opens and closes the album on an Eastern note but with a hip-hop twist. It's an adventure in lo-fi noise pop with the drone of tamboura, native percussion, and processed vocal sung in Punjabi providing the rhythm. "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" conveys indignation through its angry guitar and spit-sung lyrics. "Call All Destroyer" has Singh leading on funky bass like old-school political rockers Gang of Four. The anti-melodies are similar to stock indie rock, but the sonic dissonance created on dholki, harmonium, and flute separates Cornershop from the pack as they reclaim a racial stereotype (that every Asian in Great Britain tends a corner shop) while creating their very own roots music with a message.

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