Handcream For A Generation - Cornershop

I liked this cd a lot when i first heard it, but gradually mine or its ennui has pared my affection down to two, three or at most four or five songs. Those songs are: Heavy Soup with such slappy bass, Wogs Will Walk has Tjinder Singh sly and laid back in his delivery, the music cobbles together happily, Motion the Eleven has a kind of giddy grope-out to it, Slip the Drummer One with its robotic bandleader doesn't trip itself up, Spectral Mornings is an epic at nearly fifteen minutes, featuring noel gallagher of oasis on guitar, and its various interminglings of sounds and collisions of guitar work, spiralling into more climaxes then anticlimaxes. The rest of the ...  Read the complete review

The mixed up funny old world of Tjinder Singh where Noel Gallagher mixes it up with choreographed dance routines based around the wacky world of air flight attendants. Strange, but totally true and if you view "Handcream For A Generation" in this abstract manner its all starts to makes sense. Like 1997's "When I Was Born For The 7th Time" the album is essentially the perfect compilation album with 13 potential singles flying the flag from classic rock of the "Lesson Learned......" single through to funky soul with Otis Clay on the albums opener "Heavy Soup". With a four year gap between albums (not including the Clinton side ...  Read the complete review