Cornershop: When I Was Born for the 7th Time
Jon Savage, MOJO, Fall 1997
THIS IS A GOOD party record: loose, funny, warm – exemplary genre-trashing by musicians who have a great recollection (as they chant on 'Brimful of Asha': "Argo Records!") but who also, unfashionably, have a strong sense of their place in the world.
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