FEELGOOD band The Mavericks are in thumping, stomping harmony once more after an absence of seven years and how good it is for them to be pulsing and pounding.

Tighter then a crab’s sphincter, the band unleash their Cuban-Latin rhythms – tropical forest dense in texture, thrusting in tone, and as refreshing as a rum daiquiri on a balmy summer afternoon. Some of the tracks on here are so infectiously bouncy that only someone clad in concrete overshoes could prevent their toes from tapping. Indeed, the Latin lash of tracks such as Back In Your Arms Again and All Over Again are augmented by a ska and reggae backbeat – ‘skaregg’, perhaps.

Whatever, the whole is then draped and drenched in the mesmerising voice of lead singer and song-writer Raul Malo. He matches the essence of the Big O himself in evoking the currency of love – longing, loss, regret and reunion from the heart-achingly forsworn to the heart-breaking forlorn. Bueno.