If you're going to be in a band you might as well push the boat out a bit. Such at least seems to be the maxim of Sparrow Steeple. They push their own personal boat to a very odd part of the lake on their third album Tin Top Sorcerer where the Bryan Ferry of very early Roxy appears to be fronting a band of shambolic astral pixies, not a million miles away from Tyrannosaurus Rex or The Incredible String Band.
It's a very odd conceit and makes for rather mixed results. When they hit the spot it proves very interesting listening indeed. how you'd categorise it is another matter altogether, it's either a music from the distant past or somewhere off in the future.
If you've ever enjoyed anything by the three bands I mentioned above, there might be something for you here. If anything, the fusion of such apparently contradictory inspirational sources make Sparrow Steeple stranger and further out there than all three.
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