Third solo album for New Zealand songwriter James Milne. Venturing away from the harmony-laden classic pop of Chant Darling, The Sparrow is a more measured and minimalist work, drawing particularly on the influence of the symphonic late-sixties work of Scott Walker and Serge Gainsbourg.


'The Sparrow' is Lawrence Arabia AKA James Milne's third solo album, the evocative follow up to the Taite Music Prize/Silver Scroll winning 'Chant Darling'. 

Venturing away from the harmony-laden, classic pop production of 'Chant Darling', 'The Sparrow' is a more measured and minimalist work, drawing particularly on the influence from the symphonic late-sixties work of Scott Walker and Serge Gainsbourg. 

Produced and mixed by Lawrence Arabia, the album features Connan Mockasin, Elroy Finn, Andrew Keoghan, Hayden Eastmond-Mein, Tom Watson, Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, Rachel Wells, Toby Laing and Daniel Yeabsley. 

2012 Rythmethod