It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah: Exclusive Green Vinyl LP Ryuichi Sakamoto Ackell felt compelled to pick

Ackell felt compelled to pick up a guitar

“[Carrie & Lowell] feels like you're hearing [Sufjan Stevens] for the first time again

Gareth Sager and Bruce Smith went on to form Rip Rig & Panic alongside Neneh Cherry

Ronnie Wood and Ian Stewart were joining in on stage and later Buddy Guy

” – Robert Menasse on ‘The K&D Sessions’

It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah: Exclusive Green Vinyl LP Ryuichi Sakamoto Ackell felt compelled to pickBlack Grape's debut, It's Great When You're Straight Yeah, is a surreal, funky, profane, and perversely joyous album, overflowing with casual eclecticism and giddy humour. Working with a band that is looser and grittier than the Mondays, Shaun Ryder sounds reinvigorated, creating bizarre rhymes that tie together junk culture, drug lingo, literary references, and utter nonsense. Ryder's lyrics have always been freewheelingly impenetrable, but this is