Cornershop - Handcream For A Generation

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"Handcream" is a great album. It's a big bag of fun from start to finish. Somehow all the fairweather fans they picked up were alienated from it, which is odd, given that it is full of hooks and top pop tune action from start to finish.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 25 January 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

better than you remember. a really weird album of proper actual house, bhangra stuff, bits of random dialogue from what appear to be linguaphone tapes for the insane, funky stuff, curious half-tracks, anthemic pop with a kids' choir...it's like st etienne's FOXBASE/ SO TOUGH era crossed with screamadelica.

someone at UNCUT's album of the year but i'm beggared if i can reacll who.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i remember i liked the first track!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I find it lots more interesting than When I Was Born... now. It isn't really trying to say anything except "yay hurrah ace wooooooo ace" which is pretty heartwarming, and suits them. Neil Davenport reviewed in Uncut but I don't think it was him; John Mulvey was rabid about it too, I remember.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG I used to write some long-ass reviews.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I was just thinking the other day how, in retrospect, where 7th Time is sort've bogged down by it's own legacy and "importance" (you know, Tjinder was writing songs about BIG STUFF, MAN), this album has only seemed better and better precisely because it's a "yay hurrah ace woooooo ace" album.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

"This album arrived with so much baggage it might as well have been Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein."

Not a haiku, but who cares.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

great record

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw the thread title and the word "boring" immediately sprang to mind. I see now that I'm not the only one who thought so.

I think Woman's Gotta Have It is super, though, FWIW.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 19 May 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

SO UNDER-RATED.

it's almost summer. put this fucking record on NOW!

― pisces, Sunday, 27 May 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link

i still have this somewhere. maybe i'll give it a spin.

― funny farm, Sunday, 27 May 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't believe that there are so many cloth-eared shop hataz out there. Well, I can, but it is a bit sadface. I find it of a piece with their other albums in its playfulness.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 27 May 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Great Album. One bad song only.

― everything, Friday, 8 June 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Their side-project Clinton was even more underrated. Very simple beats, but I was mesmerized, and played it nonstop for months.

― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 8 June 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't believe that there are so many cloth-eared shop hataz out there

I may be cloth-eared, but the cloth is silk.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 8 June 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.nme.com/news/cornershop/37518

― piscesx, Sunday, 22 June 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

charity shop purchase today (first since uk lockdown)
so much wrong in this thread.
this sounds absolutely fantastic and so much fun.

― mark e, Friday, 26 June 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link

It holds up! In some ways sounds better than when it came out because so many British bands had being doing albums covering a certain range of eclectic styles (bit of disco, T-Rex, techno tune then a straight rock number) through the 90s and that approach was a bit played out by 2002. And "Raised Platform" is an annoying rip of Brimful of Asha. But Cornershop are so good. All their albums since then have been great, though I haven't heard the new one yet.

― everything, Friday, 26 June 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link

agreed.
on first listen it sounds remarkably fresh.
best album i have heard in a very long time.

― mark e, Friday, 26 June 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link

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