Novelty Island - How Are You Coping With This Century? Format:CD - all in between Geraint

- all in between Geraint being a member of London bands The Balham Alligators and Slim Chance

and most entertaining bands in bluegrass

Turn Me 'Round (1975) - when a kinky serial cheater's games go a bit too far

Jazz-informed arrangements form the basis of an album you'd call "experimental string band" by any measure

Novelty Island - How Are You Coping With This Century? Format:CD - all in between Geraint2021 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