Lawrence Arabia Reveals New Track “Traveling Shoes” Via His Website New Album The Sparrow released July 24 On Bella Union
Download: “Traveling Shoes” MP3
New Zealand songwriter / producer Lawrence Arabia returns this summer with The Sparrow, the follow up to the critically-acclaimed and award-winning album Chant Darling.
Venturing away from the harmony-laden, classic pop production of that release, The Sparrow is a more measured and minimalist work than its predecessor, drawing particularly on the influence of the symphonic late-sixties work of Scott Walker and Serge Gainsbourg. While various ominous words like ‘mature’ and ‘serious’ come to mind, there are still strong traces of the witty pop songwriting that defined the first two Arabia albums. “Travelling Shoes” is a recollection of a young man (not unlike the young James Milne) defining himself against the prevailing culture of his provincial upbringing. “The 03″ muses on the same character’s possible shameful return to that same setting having gone out into the world to achieve his dreams, and failed…