Luna @ CCA, Glasgow, 2 August

"It's good to be back – it's been a looong time," drawls Dean Wareham, after the applause following a heartening, sprightly rendition of Chinatown dies down. Indeed, it's been rather a long time between drinks, both since Luna released Penthouse (boasting the aforementioned melodic title track) back in '95 and a decade since the dream pop purveyors disbanded in 2005. However, the breakup turned out to be something more akin to a prolonged orbit, and the four-piece are traversing stages around the Earth once again. It's an unexpected but fortuitous second chance for many to acquaint themselves with the group once described by Rolling Stone as “the best band you’ve never heard of."

Luna's reach may have been a cult one but it has extended far over the years, if tonight's comfortably attended CCA show is anything to go by. The group's recorded output is hallmarked by an aestival effervescence, but the intervening years have added some fire in the belly. Tonight's set imbues their catalogue with an impressively muscular verve, that quickly initiates curious newcomers into the moon magic that has kept the silver-haired fans in the crowd anchored all these years. A diminutive Britta Phillips appears dwarfed by her instrument but her warm basslines are a constant undercurrent that allow Wareham and Lee Wall to layer guitar parts, with Wall's talent squarely at the fore during the stratospheric solo heights of Tracy I Love You.

A rumbling, rocking rendition of Lost In Space is backed by a sauntering finale in 23 Minutes In Brussels, before obligatory foot stomping brings the affable foursome back onstage for a fan-pleasing two-song encore, with Blue Thunder a nod to Wareham's pre-Luna outfit Galaxie 500. Capped off earlier by the delicate, celestial vocals of Rachel Kenedy at the helm of London-based Flowers, who took tonight's support duties, it's been a delightful resurrection of a band you may never have heard of, but one you certainly won't forget.