Cornershop

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About Cornershop

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 Leicester 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 favourite. 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.

ORIGIN
London, England
FORMED
1991
GENRE
Alternative

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