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ALBUMDisco's Main Squeeze (E.P.)Cornershop & Pinky Ann Rihal
Albums by Cornershop
ALBUMEngland is a Garden Instrumentals (Instrumentals)Cornershop
ALBUMEngland is a GardenCornershop
ALBUMHold on It's EasyCornershop
ALBUMSnap Yr CookiesCornershop
ALBUMJudy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast (Special Edition)Cornershop
ALBUMThe Hot for May SoundCornershop
ALBUMHandcream for a GenerationCornershop
ALBUMWhen I Was Born for the 7th Time (Expanded Edition)Cornershop
ALBUMWoman's Gotta Have It (Expanded Version)Cornershop
ALBUMHold On It HurtsCornershop
Cornershop's Popular Music Videos
Brimful of Asha
Cornershop
St Marie Under Canon
Cornershop
No Rock: Save In Roll
Cornershop
Soul School
Cornershop
Free Love
Cornershop
Artist Biography
Cornershop carved out a singular niche in indie rock by incorporating sounds from India into a blend of chunky guitars, danceable beats, and anti-racist politics. Founded by vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter Tjinder Singh and multi-instrumentalist Ben Ayres, the English group debuted in 1993 with the noise-pop EP In the Days of Ford Cortina. Hold On It Hurts came out in 1994; its post-punk energy made it an underground favorite. Their 1995 debut for David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label, Woman’s Gotta Have It, broadened the band’s profile, and its 1997 follow-up, When I Was Born for the 7th Time, contained the catchy alt-rock sleeper hit “Brimful of Asha” and a Punjabi cover of The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood.” Over the ensuing decades, Cornershop, with Singh and a rotating cast of collaborators, released a smattering of full-lengths that included 2015’s Hold on It’s Easy, which featured lusher reworks of the band’s spikier early material, and 2020’s Brexit-needling England is a Garden.
Hometown
Leicester, England
Genre
Alternative