Super Furry Animals @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 6 May

Was there ever any doubt that the return of the Super Furry Animals wouldn't disappoint? Even in their absence, the band's constituent parts have continued to push various strands of lush psychedelic pop, not just Gruff Rhys much-acclaimed typically idiosyncratic solo releases and projects, but also Guto Pryce's summer yearnings as part of Gulp. Then there's the feeling that when the Welshmen went on 'hiatus' in 2009, they actually meant it in earnest, not-waiting-around-for-a-reunion-payday sense of the word.

Sure, this returning tour is to celebrate a 15th anniversary reissue of the group's Welsh-language album Mwng (from which six tracks are aired tonight,) and at the Albert Hall their setlist rarely strays from greatest hits territory; but in all other aspects this feels as much like 'getting back to business' as it does a reunion.

Back to business means turning 2003's Slow Life into a monstrous third-eye devouring force that pushes pop into psychedelia in a way that'd make many of today's crop of 'neo-psychedelic' wah pedal-toting garage rock bands swear off the green forever.

It means dusting off the effortlessly infectious Northern Lites, it's odd mix of calypso drums and colliery brass nearly drowned out by the sold-out audience hollering the song's chorus. Further nods to their past come when Rhys, languid and laidback as ever throughout, brings out his red Power Rangers helmet towards the set's end, before a quick band costume change for raucous finale The Man Don't Give A Fuck sees them don those infamous yeti outfits, in a display of glorious silliness that few of their disciples have ever picked up. [Simon Jay Catling]