Photo: Roger Sargent

You remember Cornershop right? A brimful of asha on the 45; everyone needs a bosom for a pillow—all that? Well they’re back with their best album in years, Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of, a groove-riding, sample-splicing collaboration with Punjabi folk singer Bubbley Kaur.

The long-awaited LP was actually sparked more than six years ago, when the group’s core duo (Ben Ayres, Tjinder Singh) courted critics and a particularly pleased John Peel with the speaker-slapping breaks and head-circling hooks of “Topknot.” A Pulp-related remix soon followed—featuring bassist Sean Mackey and a certain rising star named M.I.A.—but a completely different album (2009′s Judy Sucks a Lemon For Breakfast) dropped before the pair could finish their protracted sessions with Kaur. (She’s actually a housewife who happened to cross paths with Singh a couple times before a mutual friend caught her singing at a wedding reception and suggested a full-on collaboration.)

In the following exclusive, Ayres offers up a “crazy mix of tracks we’ve always loved, some of the more obscure Cornershop tracks, and one or two current artists that we like things by. It will probably sound a muddle. But an interesting muddle hopefully. The idea is as if hearing someone play some records at home rather than a whistles and white gloves disco mix type thing!”