It's the first day of New Zealand Music Month... so it is probably best to celebrate that with a kiwi artist that is creating a bit of interest at the moment here and elsewhere. Lawrence Arabia aka James Milne was part of the Reduction Agents, which have had a couple of songs played regularly on Bitter FM and has released two albums under the Lawrence Arabia banner. The latest one 'Chant Darling' just recently won the inaugural Taite Music prize (which is probably the NZ version of the Mercury Music Prize in the UK and is named after the late Dylan Taite, who was a well respected music journalist here in NZ). The first single, which is the song this blog is about 'Apple Pie Bed' also won the APRA Silver Scroll Award, an annual award for songwriting achievement. The song itself is the type of song you can't get out of your head. It's a classic pop song with a quirkiness that keeps the commercial radio programmers away but music lovers interested.
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