Highly recommended.

At 82, Thomas unexpectedly finds himself fronting an acclaimed band, the Pain. Their third album, Dancing Dimensions, has just been released to widespread delight.

The first Pain release to consist of entirely new songs rather than material than drew on Thomas’s 60s catalogue, it’s spacey, psychedelic and utterly fantastic, making perfect use of the singer’s remarkably preserved old-school soul voice without feeling in any way like a forensic re-creation of the past: it’s very much an album made in the 21st century.