Forget the love shack. That's so 1989. The funplex is where it's at. Even though your hosts are well into their 50s, this is one wild bash, albeit one fuelled by Viagra not E. As if he's spent the 16 years since their last album overdosing on the blue pills, frontman Fred Schneider reinvigorates the band that sounded so limp on 1992's 'Good Stuff'. The party's back in his pants, the tongue's back in his cheek and the B-52s are back to being the crazies who gave us 'Rock Lobster'.

But this reawakening isn't just about the vocalist's trademark shouting or camp come-ons ("tell your skirt to take a hike" he orders on 'Ultraviolet'; "I am a fully eroticised being," he declares on 'Deviant Ingredient'). Singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson more than hold their own, giving as good as they get, all the while providing their signature '60s girl group backing. And musical mastermind Keith Strickland has come up with a nonstop parade of monster riffs ? just check out the crunchy surf guitar on 'Pump' ? that really push the songs back into overdrive.

Helping the oldies create what Strickland himself describes as "loud, sexy rock & roll with the beat pumped up to hot pink" is producer Steve Osborne who specialises in helping fogies sound hip again. As he did for New Order on 'Get Ready', he brings the 30-year-old band bang into the 21st century by adding electronic beats, plenty of keyboards and a slick 2008 sheen to their sound.

It doesn't always work ? 'Love In The Year 3000' seems about three millennia long; 'Too Much To Think About' is built around a riff knicked from Sheryl Crow ? but they're clearly having way too much fun to notice. And by the time they declare their plan to 'Keep This Party Going', they're simply unstoppable.