Cornershop - England Is A Garden (2LP Cotton Candy Coloured Vinyl) (2025 Repress)

It is an album that strides in an upbeat fashion, to deliver a full listening experience, bringing songs of experience, empire, protest and humour, steeped in the way only Tjinder Singh would come with. Listen to a first taste of the album now, ‘No Rock: Save In Roll’, that is to say that there is not one without the other, that rock, for all its focus on death is the saviour of life. The anvil here is music itself, and a celebration of Tjinder’s birth place - The Black Country, which also gave birth to heavy metal that has gone on to influence the world to dirty rock, whether the streets are lined with pylons or palm trees, the Black Country has allowed us to see things differently. So the sound here goes back to Englands’ Midlands with two thumbs up to the feeling of hearing heavy metal from the back of a stage, as we all ride on and await the female backing vocals of our song to come in.

1. St Marie Under The Canon
2. Slingshot
3. No Rock: Save In Roll 
4. Everywhere That Wog Army Roam
5. King Kongs 
6. Highly Amplified 
7. England Is A Garden 
8. The Cash Money 
9. Morning Ben 
10. I'm A Wooden Soldier 
11. One Uncareful Lady Owner 
12. The Holy Name