Novelty Island - How Are You Coping With This Century? (2021)

2021 debut album from Liverpool's Novelty Island is a highly enjoyable trip through sunny, quasi-psychedelic songcraft across tracks with titles like "Cowboy On A Bicycle" and "Blackcurrant Sky," songs with insistent alt-pop credentials such as Graham Coxon-indebted "Michael Afternoon" and the free flow of the one-day recordings such as album opener, "This Bird," the album is entirely ‘other’, yet cloaked in a warm-blanket of familiarity. Criss-crossed with cello, harmonium, horns and banjo, How Are You Coping With This Century? is an engine of parts that appear random, yet purrs with cultured reliability.

01 - Novelty Island - This Bird (2:54)
02 - Novelty Island - Cowboy On A Bicycle (2:44)
03 - Novelty Island - Michael Afternoon (2:52)
04 - Novelty Island - Ladybird (2:38)
05 - Novelty Island - Jangleheart (2:50)
06 - Novelty Island - Blackcurrant Sky (2:59)
07 - Novelty Island - Citrus Wood (2:27)
08 - Novelty Island - Listen (2:38)
09 - Novelty Island - Blank Wine (2:58)
10 - Novelty Island - I'll Sleep In April (2:32)
11 - Novelty Island - Turtle Rock (2:46)
12 - Novelty Island - Yes (2:54)