Details Pop Arts Cornershop, When I Was Born for the 7th Time (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.) Tjinder Singh and his band of Anglo-Indian bohemian rockers sure know how to throw a wild party. They cut their Velvet Underground guitar grooves with sitar, accordion, turntables, and funkydrummer beats, like the Beastie Boys after too much dal soup. Singh turns an Allen Ginsberg poem into a rare-groove jam, and translates the Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood” into Punjabi. Cornershop aren’t self-consciously eclectic roots rockers, though — hell, on their debut four years ago, they were an utterly generic indie jangle band. Now they’re freestyling their way through party-starters like “Brimful of Asha” with a sense of anarchic joy that’s more De La Soul than Superchunk, a transformation that’s one of the great wonders of the Western (or non-Western) world. When I Was Born is an urban hang suite from start to finish. RATING: 9
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