NOVELTY ISLAND - HOW ARE YOU COPING WITH THIS NEW CENTURY? (CD)

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. 

Gatefold digifile CD edition with lyric booklet. Out October 15, 2021.

1. This Bird
   
2. Cowboy On A Bicycle
3. Michael Afternoon
4. Ladybird
5. Jangleheart
6. Blackcurrant
7. Citrus Wood
8. Listen
9. Blank Wine
10. I'll Sleep In April
11. Turtle Rock
12. Yes