Reviews
3 Stars - Good - "...With his shady background and Northern England working-class accent, Ryder is a surreal street-beat poet whose raucous authenticity masks a careful lyrical craft...", Recommended - "...represents the most impressive resurrection ever of a dead artist (metaphorically speaking, of course).... Shaun Ryder is once again the charismatic focus of a busy, brilliant music scene and Manchester is re-established as Britain's centre of diseased intelligence...", Ranked #3 in Nme's 'top 50 Albums of the Year' for 1995., 10 (out of 10) - "...could've blown the Happy Mondays' PILLS'N'THRILLS AND BELLYACHES out of the water....Every song's a potential hit single yet it works brilliantly as a whole album. It's the British equivalent of the last two Beastie Boys' albums rolled into one....a bleeding classic...", Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995., 4 Stars - Excellent - "...In Kermit, Shaun Ryder has found probably his perfect musical foil, in that he is now happily half of a wonderfully demented rap duo...", Ranked #4 on Melody Maker's List of 1995's 'albums of the Year.'
