YOU may have read the Super Furries have lost their way on the road to excess and dropped their shining baton of the bizarre, but don't believe a word of it. Instead, rest assured that Hey Venus! is every bit as tangled, new-fangled, bemusing and amusing as prime SFA.

Loosely linking a story about the adventures of a young woman who could be the grand-daughter of Ogden's Happiness Stan, the first single, Show Your Hand has you trapped and wrapped in its web of wonder within the first minute; The Gift That Keeps Giving makes merry with Beach Boys harmonies and paper-thin organ frills; while Baby Ate My Eightball and Carbon Dating tinkle with Martian steel guitars and leftfield lunar bleeps.

All is exactly as it should be then.