The new release from The Asteroids Galaxy Tour harks back to a bygone era of psychedelic Danish synthy ska-pop space-rock. The year? Erm, 2009, actually, and ‘The Golden Age’ in question the rather splendid stand-out single from the duo’s self-released debut album Fruit. A wormhole?

This EP does feature three new songs – but it still seems provocatively pro-recycling to commence and culminate proceedings, courtesy of Prince Vince’s remix, with the same old song. Hey, at least they’re up front about it. Is this back catalogue cannibalism more marketing eating into music? Maybe – but I’d urge you to set aside any such objections to taking retro a step too literally. ‘The Golden Age’ is such a perfect calling card for singer Mette Lindberg and her bandmate/producer Lars Iversen, the song would still be almost irresistible if it self-replicated to start a suite of ‘Tour EPs.

However, if you haven’t heard band or song before, in all its irrepressible effervescent fluorescence, it’s quite an experience. A punning paean to Broadway stars, the drum roll drops like needle to vinyl, before a vintage, upbeat flare-up of echo and snare and brass stabs, all kept in thrall by Lindberg’s neon vocals radiating throughout. She has a luminescent, psychedelic voice that kaleidoscopes from childlike and guileless through charismatic and saccharine to syrupy and soulful, with yelping in between. If it isn’t for you, then there’s nowhere to go; but annoying and addictive like sweet champagne, I could listen to her singing lines like “rambling down the boulevard” from here to Copenhagen.

After the title track’s parachute landing, the first new song ‘Fantasy Friend Forever’ blasts off along the same blazing trail. If squeezed keys feed the rockets, it’s still the swirling, stinging synths that thrust the band back into outer space. It’s very 80′s, which is why it works – something simple and repetitive but cranked, hedonistic, almost out of control. It’s only an illusion but wherever we’re going you’d want to hold on tight.

Lindberg and Iversen tack on track three, ‘Runner’, serving a slower, wind-up, pump-up start for the next stop on tour. It’s not quite time for old tech to triumph over auto thrust, however, as insistent, glittering keys wrestle with Mette for attention, and power the song along to pounding effect. We’ve arrived somewhere with mighty gravity. The final new tune boasts the most synth heavy start, buzz overrun by scatty drums, plus a compressed, wandering, electro bassline that squiggles and squirts and riffs around under everything else. Lindberg sparkles among the funk and somewhere after the three minute mark the first chorus kicks in. It’s the most distinctive of the set, the arrangement again managing to complement and compete with the vocals in an engaging if loud and crowded contest. After a fade the tune returns, a condensed coda that trails to a drum tail. For all the mayhem there is symmetry to be found on each song.

And so the EP ends as it began. It’s been three songs since we heard ‘The Golden Age’, so, in case you’d forgotten, Prince Vince reminds us with a right royal remix. I’ve never quite seen the attraction of the club mix, being yet to think “cor, this is a good song, just imagine the awesome potential for more electronic manipulation” or even “not too keen on this, but with a thumping drumbeat to drown it out…” – and here the extra repetition, heavy beats and synth are hardly what’s been missing. I suppose there is a paradox: if something is good enough to justify being remixed, it’s probably also good enough not to need one – who’d choose the shadow, or the echo? However, bypassing this personal hangup, its inclusion and predictable credentials (creditable, danceable but not preferable to the actual song – bah!) risk packaging the EP as a tribute to one song from two years ago, even though the filling proves they’ve more to offer.

I suspect this is not the disc to convince Asteroids Galaxy sceptics and ultimately judgement of the band is inseparable from whether you like Mette Lindberg’s singing. What’s undeniable is that it’s bold, quirky and faceted pop music – and that’s always been a winning combination.