Their new album generously features a DVD and no fewer than five bonus tracks including a fine — if heavily accented — cover of Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’. English makes a few further appearances including on the single-friendly track ‘You Know What I Mean’, with its sing along chorus certain to ring out from the summer’s festivals, starting with their double bill at La Linea (featuring those other crossover mix ups Ska Cubano). Keeping on that reggae-tip and this time alternating between French, Spanish and English, is the gently affecting and funky ‘Little Think’.

Amparanoia are at their best though with their rhumbashing, guitar-thrashing, pace switchbacking sound in full flow such as on ‘Sacaron agua’ (They Drew Water Out). A song that seems born in a simple West African chant and grows up in speed-fuelled late at night in a Catalan square moments before the police arrive.

Add a little Mexican flavour (well-trod ground for Amparanoia) on tracks like ‘Antes de hoy’, a couple of slower ballads and a liberal splash of punk attitude and you have the Amparanoia formula. This is a good band on record and an even better one live and it looks set to be a Spanish dominated summer after the last one saw many of the bigger bands woodshedding (at least on the releases front). They are also the sort of band that a left-field hit could come from (something their canny record label will have spotted).

Amparanoia — La vida te da (WRASS 171X) is out now on Wrasse Records and they play The Coronet, London with Ska Cubano on April 1 as part of La Linea (seriously).