''Cornershop and the Double 'O' Groove Of...'' is a 2011

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by the British band

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. It follows their 2009 album '' Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast''. The album had been six years in the making and is a collaboration album with Bubbley Kaur, a previously unrecorded Punjabi singer. The funds for its release were raised via

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Reception

The album has, like many previous Cornershop releases, received positive reviews, with its interesting blend of dance and Punjabi music particularly popular. When the track Topknot was released in 2004, the late

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, a fan of the band, was said to have "played it to death. ''

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'' were particularly praiseworthy, commenting " tisn't just great music, it fuses disparate cultures with such joyous irreverence that, for 40 inspirational minutes, entire notions of national borders and racial divides cease to exist".

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said "Kaur came to sing here through chance meetings and filmic, serendipitous intervention from a London cabbie. If this tale ever reaches the cinema, an effervescent soundtrack is ready and waiting". The newspaper ''

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'' described the album as "a striking blend of dance-crazed hip-hop grooves and trilling, thrilling Punjabi folk. It also introduces the sensational Bubbley Kaur. The previously unrecorded

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-raised housewife is possibly the greatest natural new singer you'll hear all year". ''Uncut'' placed it at number 48 on its list of the "Top 50 Albums of 2011".Uncut's Top 50 Albums Of 2011

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. 29 November 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2011.

Track listing

All songs credited to

Tjinder Singh Cornershop are a British indie rock band best known for their single "Brimful of Asha", originally released in 1997 and, in a remixed version, topping the UK chart in 1998. The band was formed in 1991 by Wolverhampton-born Tjinder Singh (singe ...

and Bubbley Kaur. # "United Provinces Of India" - 3:26 # "Topknot" - 3:39 # "The 911 Curry" - 3:32 # "Natch" - 2:34 # "Double Decker Eyelashes" - 4:13 # "The Biro Pen" - 4:28 # "Supercomputed" - 3:44 # "Once There Was A Wintertime" - 3:14 # "Double Digit" - 3:38 # "Don't Shake It" - 5:42

References

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* {{Authority control 2011 albums Cornershop albums