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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]

England Is a Garden
Studio album by Cornershop
Released	6 March 2020 (2020-03-06)
Length	48:20
Label	Ample Play
Cornershop chronology
Hold On It's Easy (2015) England Is a Garden (2020)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.6/10[1]
Metacritic	82/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
And It Don't Stop	[4]
The Independent	[5]
MusicOMH	[6]
NME	[7]
The Observer	[8]

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

Charts

Chart performance for England Is a Garden

Chart (2020)	Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC)[11]	76
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[12]	13

References

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