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Cornershop
Released 1995

Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu
03:24
444 plays

Roof Rack
03:48
358 plays

My Dancing Days Are Done
03:31
329 plays

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- 1
- 6 A.M. Jullandar Shere
- 06:23
- 1,648 plays

- 2
- Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu
- 03:24
- 444 plays

- 3
- Roof Rack
- 03:48
- 358 plays

- 4
- My Dancing Days Are Done
- 03:31
- 329 plays

- 5
- Call All Destroyer
- 02:25
- 289 plays

- 6
- Camp Orange
- 03:47
- 293 plays

- 7
- Wog
- 03:15
- 297 plays

- 8
- Jansimram King
- 03:36
- 278 plays

- 9
- Looking For A Way In
- 07:48
- 260 plays

- 10
- 7:20 A.M. Jullandar Shere
- 13:15
- 265 plays

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album review

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. ~ Denise Sullivan, All Music Guide