Cornershop's last album - "When I Was Born For The 7th Time"- swept all before it on its release in the late summer of 1997. Praised by critics and the listening public alike, it topped polls and warmed hearts all over the world with its winning and entirely original blend of beat, melodic charm, infectious good humour and inventive range of musical moods. In 2001, recording commenced on the eagerly-awaited new Cornershop material. Their new album, due out on 1st April, has 13 new cuts which incorporate Cornershop's trademark eclectic-boogie mix of styles; it features Oasis's Noel Gallagher on a 14-minute epic called "Spectral Mornings" as well as the original Oasis bassist Paul McGuigan on the first single, "Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III", and the US soul legend Otis Clay on album opener "Heavy Soup". Turntablist Rob Swift of New York's X-Men also joined in, co-producing two tracks. "Rocky", the first single proper from the solid new Cornershop longplayer, comes coupled with "Returning From The Wreckage", which is Cornershop's contribution to a Village Voice charity LP compiled in the wake of the attack on New York, and - depending on which format you buy - a tasty selection of remixes which progress from the respected breakbeat axe of Osymyso and the hotly tipped freshness of the young Cowcube to the deep house bass-bin breaker of Skint Records, Midfield General, (which, we are informed, is already going down rockingly on Brighton's dancefloors), to the unabated funk of The Detroit Grand Pubahs. Cornershop's record breaking 24hr long mix of "Spectral Mornings" will be webcast live and exclusively from www.cornershop.com at 7pm GMT on Tuesday 12th February. The single "Lessons Learned From Rocky I To Rocky III" is released on Monday March 4th 2002. The album "Handcream For A Generation" is released on Monday 1st April 2002. Seconds out !