It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah: Exclusive Green Vinyl LP King's X Beyond The Blue Horizon

Beyond The Blue Horizon

There are shades of goth and new-wave

Maiya Sykes

infectious piano hooks

It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah: Exclusive Green Vinyl LP King's X Beyond The Blue HorizonBlack 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