"This is not the song we wanted to sing …"

So starts the third album from Melbourne's The Sand Pebbles. There's no other band quite like them. Not that they're inaccessible. It's just that they don't sound like anything else that's out there.

 

Singer Andrew Tanner was recently asked: If The Sand Pebbles was a fruit, what type of fruit would it be? He replied: "A tomato (it's a fruit, but it doesn't act like a fruit)."

 

The band calls its sound "flower punk". It's an intoxicating psychedelic brew, but it's never indulgent – the 10 tracks here clock in at less than 40 minutes.

 

The liner notes reproduce snatches of lyrics, including a line from Kitten Heels: "Ugly people still abound, but can't bring you down/Universe vibrates to a different sound."

 

Atlantis Regrets Nothing is one of 2006's best.