Although his name suggests a junior currency, Euros Childs has been fronting Welsh psychedelic folk nutters Gorky's Zygotic Mynci for so long that he should look as aged and crumpled as a pound note. However, in a floppy T-shirt with equally floppy hair, he is strangely childlike. This may be down to the beneficial properties of the air in the Pembrokeshire hillsides, but is also a sobering reminder that he formed Gorky's - whose acclaim has dwarfed any tangible commercial success - at the tender age of 15. Only now departing his 20s, he's stepping out of the band for a while but retaining GZM's distinctive worldview, which has perhaps influenced the likes of Magic Numbers.

There are songs sung in Welsh; others, sung in English, are only fractionally more legible; there are charming short story-tunes about sheriffs who venture into the hillsides, dwarves, and the milking of cows. However, in other respects Childs solo could not be further away from GZM. Musically, he seems to want to tackle the entire spectrum. Donkey Island, the single, is a riotous, glam, party affair featuring the best la la las this year since Kaiser Chiefs. The eight-minute First Time I Saw You sees a sinister rotating synth sound overlaid with pretty piano and a gorgeous, whimsical vocal. Backed by a bassist and drummer of no fixed hairstyle, the multi-instrumentalist frontman's performance quietly draws the attention, then startles with bursts of raucous rock. Donovan's Teen Angel - which gives an idea where he's coming from, if not where he's going - is fragile and beautifully anguished. Other tracks have a punkier edge and are reminiscent of Nick Cave and Hawkwind - together. Childs doesn't say much but mumbles sweetly. Then he introduces something which sounds like, well, Mysffsfsfaffaayyasfsfssr, and is peppered by delirious shrieking. Whatever the meaning of it all, it sounds pretty good.