Lawrence Arabia, the pseudonym of New Zealand native James Milne, has announced the released of The Sparrow, the follow-up to his 2009 breakthrough album Chant Darling.

Sunshiney New Zealand crooner Lawrence Arabia is back with a third album of 60s-influenced pop on Bella Union. The Sparrow is the follow-up to 2009’s Chant Darling , which won the hearts of even the most charcoal-souled critics and put the fellow who toured as Okkervil River’s bassist and supported Feist on a jaunt or two front and center. Of course, James Milne (as Lawrence Arabia’s birth certificate calls him) has been doing the music thing for nearly a decade, so he knows his way around a stage, having been a member of both The Brunettes and Ruby ...

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What: The Sparrow by Lawrence Arabia. When: July 13 through Spunk!. Key notes: Third solo album for New Zealand songwriter James Milne, following Chant Darling , which won the Taite Music Prize (New Zealand’s equivalent of the Australian Music Prize) in 2010. Written mostly “in borrowed lounge rooms and rehearsal spaces” over a summer in London. Recorded live in October 2010 at a large house in Surrey, England, with Elroy Finn and Connan Mockasin. Strings and horn overdubs were added during 2011 in a couple of sessions at Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios in Auckland. From the presser: “Venturing away ...

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Contributed by Nathan Hetherington “Father Look” is a delicately foreboding album track lifted from Sparrow and the Workshop’s 2011 release, Spitting Daggers. The video features the trio’s obliging parents in what appears to be the behavioural attributes of a mid life crisis. Given the lyrical content I say fair play, especially when set to this [...]

James Milne A.K.A Lawrence Arabia will return in July with a new full length album, The Sparrow, and will celebrate its release with a four date nationwide tour. Following the success and critical acclaim of his Taite Music Prize-winning Chant Darling, Milne...

Lawrence Arabia has finally announced he'll be releasing the follow up to Chant Darling this July. The album, titled The Sparrow , will be released via Bella Union on July 16th. The album was recorded in late 2011 in Surrey with Elroy Finn and Connan Mockasin. Watch the trailer for the album below, which showcases the album artwork too.

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