Cornershop / When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Artist Cornershop
Album Title: When I Was Born For The 7th Time
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Indie
Format CD
Released 09/08/1997
Label Luaka Bop, Inc. / Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
Catalog No 9 46576-2
Bar Code No 9362-46576-2
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Sleep On The Left Side (4:06)
(Tjinder Singh)
2. Brimful Of Asha (5:17)
(Tjinder Singh)
3. Butter The Soul (3:19)
(Tjinder Singh)
4. Chocolat (1:24)
(Tjinder Singh)
5. We're In Yr Corner (5:47)
(Tjinder Singh)
6. Funky Days Are Back Again (3:41)
(Tjinder Singh)
7. What Is Happening (2:15)
(Ben Ayres/Tjinder Singh)
8. When The Light Appears Boy (2:41)
(Allen Ginsberg)
9. Coming Up (1:03)
(Tjinder Singh)
10. Good Shit (4:40)
(Tjinder Singh)
11. Good To Be On The Road Back Home (5:45)
(Tjinder Singh)
12. It's Indian Tobacco My Friend (4:51)
(Larry Coryell/Tjinder Singh)
13. Candyman (3:49)
(Tjinder Singh)
14. State Troopers (Part I) (3:07)
(Tjinder Singh)
15. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (2:27)
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney/Tjinder Singh)
Date Acquired 05/01/1996
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 15.00

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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
When I Was Born for the 7th Time is a remarkable leap forward for Cornershop, the place where the group blends all of their diverse influences into a seamless whole. Cornershop uses Indian music as a foundation, finding its droning repetition similar to the trancier elements of electronica, the cut-and-paste collages of hip-hop, and the skeletal melodicism of indie pop. Tying all of these strands together, the band creates a multicultural music that is utterly modern; it is conscious of its heritage, but instead of being enslaved to tradition, it pushes into the future and finds a common ground between different cultures and musics. Like Woman's Gotta Have It, large portions of When I Was Born for the 7th Time are devoted to hypnotic instrumentals, but the music here is funkier and fully realized. Cornershop hits an appealing compromise between detailed arrangements and lo-fi technology. There may be cheap keyboards and drum machines scattered throughout the album, but they are used as sonic texturing, similar to the turntables, synthesizers, samplers, sitars, and guitars that drive the instrumentals punctuating the full-fledged songs. When it chooses, Cornershop can write hooky, immediate pop songs -- "Sleep on the Left Side" and "Brimful of Asha" are wonderful pop singles, and "Good to Be on the Road Back Home" is an impressive, country-tinged tale -- but what makes When I Was Born for the 7th Time such a rich, intoxicating listen is that it balances these melodic tendencies with deceptively complex arrangements, chants, drones, electronic instrumentals, and funky rhythms, resulting in an album that becomes better with each listen.
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