There’s arriving fashionably late for a party and there’s pitching up the next day when the host is frantically flicking through the Yellow Pages in search of French polishers. So with the dust already settling on the end of year best of polls – including New Noise’s own list of albums to hear before you die or whatever 2007 – the UK release of ‘Spiderman Of The Rings’ is badly timed at best. A real shame as this leftfield offering from this tubby one-man Hot Chip times infinity is truly the stuff of legend. Plug it in and your ears will love you forever.

As the album title and its opener, with its shrill lobe-severing Woody Woodpecker sample, suggest, this is on one hand comedy music. Shudder. But – big but – but it doesn’t mean you can’t take Dan Deacon seriously. He spews out electronica that owes as much to Fisher Price and Big Bird from Sesame Street as it does to Aphex Twin and the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. Part Four Tet, part Tenacious D, this man has invented some sort of music machine that sucks up the sound of everything and spits out a rainbow-coloured aural Pollock.

Single ‘The Crystal Cat’ is the anthem for a universe where surf punk and happy hardcore are sparring partners. But near-12-minute epic ‘Wham City’ is where this bubbling cauldron of ideas comes together in one psychedelic ether-laced broth. Split into two halves, it’s like a technicolour acidhouse ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, complete with chants about magic mountains, castles, bears, bats and frogs. “Everyone plays drums and sings,” indeed.

Live, Deacon’s reputation is of Mother Teresa of Calcutta-proportions, with tripped-out visuals, light-up voodoo skulls and mass-scale euphoria to match the sonic acid test of noise. In the event of his death, Deacon should be made patron saint of glowsticks.

If the band from The Muppet Show had taken note of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Losing My Edge’, ditched their guitars and bought turntables – and sequencers, laptops, soldering irons and employed a choir of Smurfs – they still wouldn’t be this ace. That’s next year’s best of poll wrapped up already.