Sproton Layer was an American rock and roll group formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the late 1960s.
Sproton Layer found local success, but earned wider attention when its personnel went on to greater success with other musical groups: Laurence and Benjamin were both members of Destroy All Monsters, and Roger had numerous musical projects, notably art-punk group Mission of Burma and silent film accompanying group Alloy Orchestra.
Sproton Layer recorded an album's worth of material shortly before breaking up in 1970; it went unreleased until 1992 when New Alliance records issued a single of "Lost Behind Words" and a full-length album, With Magnetic Fields Disrupted.
Journalist Michael Azerrad[2] described the recordings as a valuable document of "an amazing band that sounded like Syd Barrett fronting Cream."
Sproton Layer is scheduled to perform again on June 14, 2013, at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor.