Novelty Island - How Are You Coping With This Century? Format:CD Lou explores that quest across

Lou explores that quest across ten tracks of tender

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Novelty Island - How Are You Coping With This Century? Format:CD Lou explores that quest across2021 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