Just Like the Fambly Cat

It may not be directly comparable to their hermetically-sealed psychedelic masterpiece The Sophtware Slump, but it does draw brightly from all aspects of their existence and feels like it's sticking right behind the pace-maker. It doesn't slump once. "Jeez Louise" is old school Flaming Lips weird pop with the wind in their beards and the phaser guns out; "Summer.. It's Gone" is a gorgeous weightless acoustic ditty; "Rear View Mirror" is a box of 70s rock riffs in space and "Skateboarding Saves Me Twice" sounds like a synthesised Belle & Sebastian backing track on laughing gas. As posthumous releases go it is a triumph and needn't just rely on the charity of loyal completists.--James Berry