Blissfully Witty Trappings

“On his third album as Lawrence Arabia, Christchurch native James Milne perfects the project’s defining balance of dry, writerly wit and classic pop blitheness,” Doug Wallen writes for Mess and Noise. “The Sparrow’s opener and lead single ‘Travelling Shoes’ is the perfect example: a dire need to escape ‘a town of perfect isolation’, dressed up in a string quartet and other blissful trappings. It’s a bitter pill submerged in its own hum-ability.” Currently Auckland based, Milne expects to relocate to New York later this year.


Tags: James Milne  Lawrence Arabia  Mess and Noise  The Sparrow  

Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Like many writers before her, New Zealand-born Amy Brown takes inspiration from the Australian feminist icon Stella Maria Miles Franklin in her captivating debut novel My Brilliant Sister – but instead…