THE Welsh wizards are on the hit list resurgence once more with the help of some Phantom Power.

It's been an unbelievable two years since the last, and arguably best, album Rings Around the World, and boy, did they need it.

They say time flies when you're having fun. These boys must be having the best time of their lives and it shows in their work.

In this their sixth studio album, SFA have grown up, matured and chilled out and were virtually beyond recognition as soon as I pressed play. Even so it's still good.

Acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies was enough to throw me off the scent of the Welsh rockers and it felt like another band was emerging from the land of the dragons.

Songs like Venus & Serena, Sex, War & Robots and Cityscape Skybaby take you back to early SFA while again they break their own style and bring a new freshness with Hello Sunshine.

I don't know what it is about the big country that consistently churns out good alternative rock bands year after year - Manic Street Preachers, Sterophonics, Lost Prophets - the list goes on.

These guys were one of the first and possibly the best, without having the hit success of some of the others.

MS