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It's a wonderful, kaleidoscopic groove-fest that has nothing at all to do with a world in which Oasis still hold sway.
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Cornershop's 2009 incarnation may not have the kinetic energy of the 2002 model, or the accidental pop brilliance of "Asha", but it isn't short on inventiveness.
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MojoRather than delivering a post-modern mishmash, they effortlessly synthesise these elements, making themselves a candidate for the quintessential 21st century pop group. [Aug 2009, p.102]
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Here, on the band's first album in seven years, he returns with the profoundly playful shrug of a cosmopolitan busker.
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This is exactly what Cornershop has always been so good at, and which occasionally comes through on Lemon-- expecting us to be on the same page, and feeling no need to explain anything to those who aren't.
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Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast is a vibrant collection of songs that further illustrates the importance of Cornershop over the past two decades.
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It might not be the kind of explosive statement that people once expected Cornershop to make, but Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast is clever and engaging, happily detached from the mainstream--an admirable way to continue down an improbable career path.
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This is Cornershop doing Cornershop very well.
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This is the friendliest batch of neo-glam to come down the pike in quite some time, never catching fire but never really striking a match, either, and it's the least adventurous dose of eclecticism, too, with nary a sitar, Mellotron, or sample out of place.
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Judy is as wide-eyed and upbeat as indie pop will get this year. When it sounds this fresh, Cornershop’s brand of revamped revolutionary retro is well worth a reprise.
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The first LP for nigh on a decade from Tjinder Singh and co feels like rummaging through rock's dressing-up box on a wet afternoon.
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The identity crisis of Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast has less to do with the schizophrenic thrills of Cornershop's best-known work and more with a surprising lack of individuality. Much of the album goes retro in a puzzlingly rote and even deferential way.
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Singh sounds a little more blissed out than before--but every bit as appealing.
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Under The RadarAs with previous recordings, Singh occasionally drives home lines or phrases to see that they bend properly into a hook, regardless of how malleable they may be. [Spring 2010, p.69]
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Jul 18, 2021This is a full body of music, Cornershop's sound is growing and taking us higher with them.
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Apr 7, 2012
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bobb.Jan 15, 2010In a world of bad songs, not only are they back, but even better than before - unstoppable in fact.