New Cornershop Video - "The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History In The Making)"

It's been awhile, but Cornershop's still alive and following up 2002's Handcream For A Generation with the forthcoming Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast. That's where you'll find first single "The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History In The Making)." You'll also find it as the backing track to this Prashant Bhargava-directed video. Cornershop offer the details at MySpace:

Well before the current interest in India as a different locational source for film, Chicago's award winning Grafitti artist turned award winning Film-maker and Designer Prashant Bhargava put together his film Patang -- this feature length drama is set during the jubilant atmosphere of India's largest kite festival. Luckily for us he also did a video for "The Roll Off Characteristics"

Lucky for us, too. Get out your confetti:

This remix will inspire some different, maybe less joyous dancing:

Cornershop - "The Roll Off (Solo Remix)" (MP3)

"The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History In The Making)" single is out 5/26 via Cornershop's own Ample Play in various formats. The limited one-sided 7" version can be pre-ordered at Rough Trade. One sided? Yes:

The B. side is an etch by NYC's part folkie, part indie-rocker and part comic book artist extraordinaire Jeffrey Lewis, depicting the super dooper Indian super hero Jaganath, whom can circumference the earth in 5 steps.

They're also taking it on the road, but staying local:

07/25 - Oxford, UK @ Oxford Academy
07/26 - Oxfordshire, UK @ Indie Guitar Festival
07/27 - Manchester, UK @ Moho
07/28 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla
07/29 - London, UK @ Heaven
07/31 - Birmingham, UK @ Birmingham Academy
08/01 - Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Academy
08/02 - Kendal, UK @ Kendal Calling Festival

Posted at 11:57 AM by brandon in Album Art, MP3, Tour Dates, Video
Tags: Cornershop | Jeffrey Lewis

6 Comments

the world has missed this band.

Posted by: jay at 05/19/09 12:36 PM | Reply
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Cornershop - 1 Cracker - 0, this is way more infectious than anything off of Land of Milk and Honey

Posted by: rinjo njori at 05/19/09 2:06 PM | Reply
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It's like a 4min "Slumdog"!!!!1!!

Posted by: Rulasu at 05/19/09 6:24 PM | Reply
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Pretty nice song, very lazy remix though. Throwing some vocal samples over a 'wobbly' bassline does no justice to the original.

Posted by: matt at 05/19/09 6:28 PM | Reply
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I want to hear Jerffrey Lewis !!!! all well, that was a nice video.....lame remix but cool video.

Posted by: King of Carrot Flowers at 05/19/09 7:55 PM | Reply
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Cornershop song titles FTW.

Posted by: DiscoIsTheHalfway at 05/20/09 8:45 AM | Reply
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