I’m sure some people might dismiss The Warlocks as one of that band of Velvet Underground fetishists. But I don’t care – I love them too.

Their hypnotic Velveteen languor is just my cup of absinthe, as it is with fellow travellers like Yo La Tengo, The Allah-Las and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

In the case of this song – You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart – the narcotic neo-psychedelic mood they conjure perfectly matches the theme of a song about the insomniac stress of trying to balance work, band, friends, social media and a new baby.

“Things can get fried pretty fast,” says frontman Bobby Hecksher. “This song is about exactly that. Everything melting and on display and all you’re trying to do is pick up the pieces and make everything work.”

The song starts slow and gentle and builds up gently through huge chords and choruses into waves of delicious distortion, matching the title of a new album called The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks.

That title, by the way, was coined because the whole album was written in a single day, which is remarkable, and fits nicely alongside previous albums like Surgery, Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, The Mirror Explodes, Mean Music Machine and In Between Sad – inspired by the death of Hecksher’s brother.

Having grown up in the swamps of Tampa Bay, Florida, Hecksher was 16 when he moved to LA and found kindred spirits, playing bass on Beck’s 1994 album Stereopathetic Soulmanure album and passing through The Brian Jonestown Massacre before founding his own band in 1998.

Using the Velvets and the psychedelic garage rock of the Sixties as a starting point, The Warlocks – named after the house band of Ken Kesey’s acid parties (and used previously by both the Velvets and the Grateful Dead) – stir in influences of shoegaze and drone, space rock and krautrock.

The band has had a constantly changing line-up, with well over 20 members, and currently consists of lead singer Hecksher and his two fellow guitarists J.C. Rees and Earl V. Miller, organist Rob Campanella, bassist Marlena Schwenck, drummer Oscar Ruvalcaba and percussionist Elina Yakubova.