Intuitive melodies, steam-driven rhythms and bracing guitars provide the bedrock of The Dykeenies sound. Add to that the plaintive, broken-but-not-bowed croon of Brian Henderson and you have all the ingredients for the intoxicating, aural love potion that is ‘New Ideas’.

Originally available through King Tuts’ Recordings in summer 2006, this track now receives a full-commercial release. And a good thing it is too for The Dykeenies, as this song deserves the widest possible audience. Three minutes of streamlined pop-punk with added panache, ‘New Ideas’ opens in a barrage of vigorous guitar and enthused handclaps. The pace builds determinedly before exploding into the sumo-sized chorus; naysayers trampled underneath cascading guitar and fevered rhythms.

Lyrically fragmented and impressionistic, the pervading mood - defiance spiked by doubt - is conveyed as much by Henderson’s warm brogue as the words. Most impressively there is not the slightest surfeit of sound here: a size-zero trim tune, ‘New Ideas’ gallops gazelle-like towards its brash call-and-response finale. A seductively sweet knock-out.