England Is a Garden

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England Is a Garden
England Is a Garden.jpg
Studio album by
Cornershop
Released6 March 2020 (2020-03-06)
Length48:20
Label Ample Play
Cornershop chronology
Hold On It's Easy
(2015)		England Is a Garden
(2020)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.6/10 [1]
Metacritic 82/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
And It Don't Stop Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [4]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

England Is a Garden is a studio album by British indie rock band Cornershop. It was released on 6 March 2020 under the band's own label, Ample Play Records. [9]

Contents

The first single from the album, "No Rock: Save in Roll" was released on 26 November 2019. [10]

Critical reception

England Is a Garden was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 82, based on 10 reviews. [2]

AllMusic's Tim Sendra hailed England Is a Garden as Cornershop's "most cohesive and powerful record yet, full of songs that have a hearty punch to go along with their typically sharp hooks". [3] Elisa Bray of The Independent found its "pan-cultural melting pot of juxtapositions" as "confrontational" and "musically ambitious" as the band's early work. [5] Somewhat less impressed, Robert Christgau highlighted the songs "Everywhere That Wog Army Roam" and "The Cash Money" while offering as a summation that the band's singer and songwriter "Tjinder Singh fends off Brexit with his trademark hyperintelligent indirection, a tactic that doesn't work as well as it used to". [4]

Track listing

England Is a Garden track listing
No.TitleLength
1."St Marie Under Canon"4:12
2."Slingshot"5:15
3."No Rock: Save in Roll"3:42
4."Everywhere That Wog Army Roam"5:09
5."King Kongs"0:09
6."Highly Amplified"4:49
7."England Is a Garden"1:45
8."Cash Money"5:19
9."Morning Ben"0:18
10."I’m a Wooden Soldier"5:00
11."One Uncareful Lady Owner"3:52
12."The Holy Name"8:50

Charts

Chart performance for England Is a Garden
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [11] 76
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [12] 13

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References

  1. ↑ "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic? . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 Sendra, Tim. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (14 October 2020). "Consumer Guide: October, 2020" . And It Don't Stop. Substack . Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  5. 1 2 Bray, Elisa (4 March 2020). "Cornershop review, England is a Garden: Band are no less musically ambitious nearly 30 years later". The Independent . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  6. ↑ Johnson, Steven (9 March 2020). "MusicOMH Review". MusicOMH . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  7. ↑ Beaumont, Mark (4 March 2020). "Cornershop – 'England Is A Garden' review: DIY-'til-we-die anthems for their devoted cult following". NME . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  8. ↑ Morris, Damien (8 March 2020). "Cornershop: England Is a Garden review – liberation, celebration". The Observer . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  9. ↑ Roberts, Christopher (26 November 2019). "Cornershop Announce New Album". Under the Radar . Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  10. ↑ Bloom, Madison (26 November 2019). "Cornershop Announce First Album in 8 Years, Share New Song". Pitchfork . Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  11. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  12. ↑ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 May 2020.


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