Seventies-obsessed Swedish glamsters Velvet Insane are back with another collection of feelgood frippery, jam-packed with perky, ear-snaring tuneage and handclap-based good times…

The band’s mission is simple – to create a parallel dimension where David Bowie, Mott The Hoople and Roxy Music appear on Top of The Pops every week, for ever, occasionally joined by chums like T-Rex, The Sweet and, surprisingly for a fleeting moment on the album’s standout cut, Jemmy, The Sex Pistols in full-on, melodic mode.

As missions go, that’s a pretty laudable one, and luckily Velvet Insane have the talent to see it through; In tandem with the great éminence grise of Swedish rock n’roll, Diamond Dogs frontman Sören ‘Sulo’ Karlsson, who helps the band with songwriting and production – not to mention being the most rock n’roll person you’ll ever meet – they’ve carved out a wonderful thirty four minute celebration of goodtime music that demands you leave your cares at the door, crack open something suitably enlivening and just… wallow. If you’ve brought your dancing shoes that’s a bonus, but if you’re of an age to remember this era the first time around, dancing’s probably not much of an option. Better just to grin like a loon and get with the programme via rebel-rousing calls to arms like opener Bamalama Breakout or the superb Hardest of Hearts, which tries it’s best to get all moody n’sensitive but then breaks out a honking great sax solo midway through that’s probably worth the price of admission on it’s own…

Runaway Bride is an absolute wizzard wheeze, if you get my drift, and glorious closer Saturday Night Til Sunday Morning – which again finds legendary Hellacopter/Backyard Baby Dregen joining in the fun n’games – will find you up and doing the living room boogie whether you like it or not, leaving you weak and dizzy but wanting to do it all over again -surely the sign of time well spent on the part of the artist…

As the modern world grips us more tightly by the throat by the day, squeezing the life out of all of us, mindless enjoyment has never been more important – and Velvet Insane deliver just that on High Heeled Monster – in the best possible way, of course – get some of their magic in yer ears now!

High Heeled Monster releases on August 25th.