It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah: Exclusive Green Vinyl LP Ryuichi Sakamoto “[Carrie & Lowell] feels like

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

‘Scared Of The Dark’

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

The band created all-time metal classics like “Balls To The Wall”

It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah: Exclusive Green Vinyl LP Ryuichi Sakamoto “[Carrie & Lowell] feels likeBlack 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