Pop Voodoo

Black Grape were a superior group musically to Happy Mondays, Shaun Ryder’s other collective. Their first album in 20 years opens with Everything You Know Is Wrong, an anti-Trump rant that sounds like a funkier version of Sleaford Mods. Kermit, Ryder’s partner in crime, relishes delivering the message of Nine Lives. The pace doesn’t let up with Set The Grass On Fire, a festival favourite in the making. They reflect on their hell-raising past on I Wanna Be Like You and Young And Dumb. They’re older, but still in fine funking form.