PRAM

That sucks. I don't like when things like that happen to the mind of someone who has been such a kindred presence.

Pram (with Rosie) had a plane of their own, and they were the absolute rulers of it. If there must be a Pram without her, I do think instrumental/film scoring is the approach most likely to be worthwhile.

ps Chrysalis is one of the best songs ever recorded

never tweet your heroes

truth

"Dark Island" became a great favourite of mine a few years ago, a strong Broadcast influence evident throughout but completely it's own thing.

Spiked? For fuck's sake, Rosie. Why did it have to be that coven of wankers?

she wasn't very nice the one time I met her (which was in 2002) so I'm not incredibly surprised. Still like the music

New Pram.
http://www.treblezine.com/pram-new-album-across-the-meridian-announced/

Oh fuck

Pram fill the crater sized hole left by trish Keenan’s death

So are they all instrumental now?

No Rosie no cred tho

Yes but Rosie is nuts now

Separate the art from artist imo

Dunno I mean I just love her voice

No me too
Was being flip

Lol good on ya

broadcast were such a pram rip off. 'the stars are so big...' is underrated magic. new songs a bore w/o cuckston vox though

I...am annoyed I missed this news earlier.

broadcast - a pram rip off? LOL

pram are amazing but c'mon

I love both and don't really see it.

they're more like the voodoo queens

I always thought of Pram as the weird sister in the basement doing taxidermy and catching bugs to chloroform and mount.

Broadcast upstairs watching French new wave movies and listening to 60s pop and Jean Jacques Perrey.

Very apt

Rosie’s voice is def more of an acquired taste tho it has “smoothed” out since the earlier records obviously

Also broadcast took a stylistic dip on that last record (not including children of Alice). Saw them on tender buttons tour and witch cults - TB was all ring modulated gnarled synths and a good time. Witch tour had tons of hammer
Horror style occult projections onstage - some of the music wasn’t recognizable as on record and older hits were played sparingly.

With witch, focus group collab ep and especially
Mother is the Milky Way - broadcast were going increasingly acoustic and minimal, closer to a tripped out folk sound. much different than anything pram did - i still haven’t found mother ep around here but I’ll upload it when I do.

Also always worth saying trish was a sweetheart

ok i drunkposted last night -- but i remember listening to first broadcast LP at my friends, ready to get excited about getting into them, and it totally reeked of pram in every way, and i got bored after the first half anyway.

Hi meaulnes

...hi. sorry, im a gobshite.

Nah you’re not, I gotta work on my drunk posting myself
Welcome

I always thought of Pram as the weird sister in the basement doing taxidermy and catching bugs to chloroform and mount.

Broadcast upstairs watching French new wave movies and listening to 60s pop and Jean Jacques Perrey.

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Love this description

pram were more piano magic than broadcast but they all fit in the same continuum

Listened to North Pole radio station this evening because thread

Excellent record. Pram also have stunning diver set for their records

My single favorite pram song is on the Meshes EP - “Chrysalis”

new record is so good <3

^this

Saw them live for the first time last night. Fascinating. Can't think of anyone who constructs a four minute song in the same way they do.

very glad to hear that maura!

listening on youtube, there are vocals on 'electra' and 'shadow of twilight' so if it's not rosie then who is it that is singing? it sounds like rosie. maybe i am listening to the wrong thing. amazing that the horn player has never improved. is it still mr verdigris horn? maybe a bit like what bits of a plone album would sound like now on the instrumentals, but then they've always shared some similarities. i must admit that i am not as familiar with song titles on the domino releases. maybe i've heard all of these before? and me once saying they were my favorite band. they are still my favorite band to blast in the car with the windows down.

goes a bit smooth jazz in places(ladder to the moon), hmmm...but next one is better, old timey jazz. why isn't there a filmmaker making movies designed to use pram songs as the soundtrack? the video someone made for the single??? is great, maybe they've got an entire movie in them.

sam owen plays bass and sings

Current line-up:
Sam(antha) Owen - vocals, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, accordion, keyboards, bass
Matt Eaton - guitar, sampler
Max Simpson - keyboards/synth, sampler, melodica
Harry Dawes - trombone, theremin, stylophone
plus there's an excellent female drummer playing with them live atm

stuart maconie had a chat with sam and max on the freak zone a couple of weeks ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b91w1t (starts about 49 minutes in, available for 10 more days)

i have made a 2 disc pram mix that i can put online when life is normal again, but it compiles everything from their eps to lps

Oh please do ross

will do jon

anyone care to elaborate on whether there is vocals on this at all

or is it all instrumental

jeff w says above there are vocals

what are the vocals like

screamo

(dunno, just started listening to the album right now)

yes there are vocals on the second track so far, and they sound like creepy little girl vocals so it's not miles away from what we had before.

this is a good pram album

This is very good. Their best since museum of imaginary animals. Functions perfectly as background music or focused listening - little bit mars attacks in vibe. The new singer sounds eerily like Rosie too. Also a little like she was grafted from wicker man.

Big love ❤️

Picked the new album up on a whim a couple of weeks ago, just listening now and it's great. Sixties jazz/spy movie vibes, sounds great. Will need to work backwards, I have 'The Moving Frontier' but don't recall enjoying it anywhere near as much.

just get the 'iron lung' ep and 'the stars are so big...' 'imaginary animals' is alright, too!

And the meshes ep

Did it ever get mentioned that Rosie Cuckston stood as a Brexit Party candidate in the 2019 General Election?

https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3327/election/397

...and lost badly (hurrah!)

She's in Reform UK now, so I wouldn't be surprised if she stood again in the upcoming GE.

there was definitely mention of her right-wing politics somewhere on her, no idea which thread

*here

years ago I happened to look at her Twitter to see if she'd made any comments about leaving Pram and was appalled by the political content, as somewhat chronicled in this thread

oh now i see it was in this thread in 2017, so long ago

Yes, but actually standing as a parliamentary candidate for the Brexit Party (ffs) wasn't.