The Super Furry Animals have been at this music lark for over a decade now, which certainly makes this writer feel old, so they are now reaching the stage where we begin to stop expecting their new albums to be better than their previous ones. Which makes Love Kraft even more of a pleasant surprise, as it could well be their best release so far.

Starting with the sound of guitarist Bunf jumping into a swimming pool (why? why not?), Love Kraft is full of all the quirky insanity and nuggets of pop gold that have littered the Furries' career.

Zoom! is certainly an ambitious opener, lasting seven minutes and moving from that splash to the orchestral grandeur of a 100-strong Catalonian choir. Why? Why not? Atomic Lust starts off a bit more down to earth; a lovely pop lullaby crooned by Gruff in full-on non-quirky mode, eschewing some of the mannerisms that have been a little irritating in past SFA outings.

However, when it stops after about two minutes, they're just playing with you as it comes throbbing back, guitars blazing. And then the song starts again before another burst of guitar buzz and piano key hammering. The Horn is a jaunty sea shanty with Beach Boy harmonies and a dulcimer rattling away in the background, while Ohio Heat tells the tale of Salty Marine, a Welshman in Mid West USA.

It's pretty much gorgeous and the hypnotically psychedelic verses and has a typically crazy chorus: "Ohio heat, sweet as sugar from a beet." Of course, pointing out the idiosyncracies of the Furries' music is to downplay the quality that runs through their music. Perhaps if they weren't Welsh blokes with funny names they would be Britain's undoubted answer to the Flaming Lips...

First single Lazer Beam finds Gruff complaining about romantic comedies through a megaphone before announcing that the band want to leave Earth on a lazer beam. Frequency is even better, with a knockout chorus and a happy-clappy middle eight keeping up the Californian hue of the album, even though it was actually recorded in Catalonia.

What can be said about Psyclone! other than that it is a warning for dinosaurs about the impending dangers of a meteorite that is about to wipe them out? With typical class, Gruff admits that even though the songs were all supposed to be about love: "Everyone's got a different take on it and some tracks obviously veered off course." Obviously...

But it's that veering that has made the Super Furry Animals so lovable and endearing throughout their career. Now that they have come up with a blissed-out, pscyhedelic, 70s Beach Boys-style masterpiece, we can all bask in the warm, summerty glow of their weirdness.