Thirty years ago, a young man at the beginning of his journey into mind-altering substances and ideas bought an album by a new British band that piqued his interest. Unlike other bands from the ’90s Britpop scene, they weren’t merely mimicking the sounds of rock and pop’s past. Instead, they were taking the elements they loved from that bygone era and molding them into something new, yet familiar. That young man was your intrepid author, the album was K, and that band was Kula Shaker.

Though I lost track of them amid life’s distractions and the discovery of countless other artists and genres, I can safely report that in the 30 years since, Kula Shaker has honed their sound to a fine, sparkling prism point—and they sound better than ever on their newest release, Wormslayer.

The album spins and gurgles to life on the opening track, “Lucky Number,” unwinding into a brief Eastern interlude before a marching beat carries this bouncy ode to a lover to its climax. “Good Money” boasts a chorus that feels like a modern psychedelic-funk counterpart to the O’Jays’ “For the Love of Money,” while Crispian Mills spits hallucinatory fire with lines like, “You and me are free to choose our own reality when opportunity knocks on our door.”