Black Grape

With Black Grape, Shaun Ryder expands the psychedelic dance-rock of his former band the Happy Mondays, buttressing their pop smarts and adding a heavier hip-hop influence thanks to the presence of rapper Kermit.

These shifts in style helped make the group's 1995 debut album, It's Great When You're Straight…Yeah, feel at home in the heady days of Britpop, leading to the Top Ten hits \