The Zombies' return, like their premature dissolution 36 years ago, has been met with little fanfare. The band's last album, Odessey [sic] & Oracle, was an inspired British response to the melodic opulence of Pet Sounds, but they split before it was released. Their success has thus been posthumous.

Though not a full-scale reunion, this tour is the first time singer Colin Blunstone and arranger Rod Argent have resuscitated the Zombies name. The set attempts to survey both men's careers, taking in Blunstone's solo work and Argent's eponymous art-rock band, and this creates some strange bedfellows: Argent's bombastic God Gave Rock'n'Roll to You cheek by jowl with an elegant string quartet recital of Gershwin's Summertime.

Blunstone is an unorthodox frontman and his breathy, choral voice has lost some of its delicacy but none of its power. Accompanied only by Argent's plaintive keyboards on Rose for Emily, or a string quartet on Misty Roses, he evokes the sighing melancholy of red-and-gold autumn afternoons. More conventional rock'n'roll moves, however, leave Blunstone looking nonplussed, and an otherwise hair-raising rendition of She's Not There is gatecrashed by a hideous cock-rock guitar solo that even the Darkness might regard as overheated.

One day, hopefully, Odessey & Oracle will be deemed worthy of the same full-scale treatment as Brian Wilson's Smile. The Zombies deserve a little reverence.