The Sparrow by Lawrence Arabia album review

The prolific James Milne’s new Lawrence Arabia record is the most controlled and satisfying he has ever been involved with.

By Nick Bollinger In Music

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4th August, 2012

Review

There’s a short story in the booklet that accompanies The Sparrow, the third album James Milne has released in his guise as Lawrence Arabia. It is about a man with a fetish for tailored suits who becomes haunted by the song of a sparrow. Although he rides his bicycle all night across the city, he is unable to escape themusic. Eventually he takes refuge with his tailor – perhaps the only person in whom he can confide – and orders a new suit. Although its significance is not entirely clear, the parable captures something of the album’s’s rarefied mood, and elements of it recur ...

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