Music News - Lawrence Arabia releases 'Another Century' and 'Absolute Truth' Pre-Orders Available Now
10 June 2016 - 0 Comments
Absolute
Truth, the long-awaited album
from Auckland-based chanteur Lawrence
Arabia, is set to be unveiled come July.
Hitting the airwaves today, second single Another
Century follows on from Absolute
Truth’s sublime first output, A Lake. Engineered and co-produced
by Mike Fabulous in the Hutt Valley amidst the album’s recording under plastic
moulding factory Gyro Plastics, Another
Century is a contemporary love story like only Mr Arabia
can deliver.
A stunning second single from one of Aotearoa’s foremost songwriters, Another Century is available here.
Akin to the quirky epic love poems Lawrence mastered on Chant Darling (see Dream Teacher, Auckland CBD Part
Two), the song pairs a knowing nostalgia with a ripe
sexual tension to dramatic effect. A shuffling disco beat ushering soaring
strings lures the listener in like an expert fisherman before Larry even drops
his first line. Always one to cast the mundane in a new light, the song’s
opening hints at a crisis of global warming (“It's impolite to say this is the best
summer ever/ Especially not in the presence of farmers/ Who're living through
disaster”).
Another
Century’s backstory looms large with contemporary anxiety
before zooming into sweetly proposing a new era for lovers alone: “...these
sun-kissed loves / So doomed and so fragile… why should we now end this?
Just cos the sun's going down/ Just cos the air's getting cooler / I think
we're going to be another century.”
Mastered by Mike Gibson, featuring Alistair Deverick (Boycrush) on drums and
violinists Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper and Jess Hindin, Another Century is both sardonic and sentimental, clever and charming, and sure to elate
thoughtful feelers and feeling thinkers alike.
Lawrence Arabia’s album Absolute Truth is
due for release on Flying
Nun on 8 July 2016. Pre-orders are available via Flying Out here.
Be sure to catch Lawrence
Arabia on tour around the country from Wednesday 13 July.
Tickets are available now from Under the Radar.
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