PRAM

...hi. sorry, im a gobshite.

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

― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 08:56 (five hours ago) Permalink

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.

keyth - pram has soundtracked cartoons! but man they need a break, could totally imagine the old timey jazz song in a hollywood flick gun scene

jeff, can you confirm that sam sang at the show

did she sing older material as well

i find it hard to believe that is not rosie on this record, i know i know..but it is uncanny.

Ross - yes, she did. As I said on your albums poll thread I don't know their catalogue well, so I don't really know what older material was played. Here's a review I found in case it helps:
http://freq.org.uk/reviews/pram-rodney-cromwell-live-at-the-lexington/

I have a favor to ask. If it should be announced somewhere that they are playing any US dates, could someone say something on this thread? I am way way out of the loop with knowing about that kind of thing and i would not want to miss it if they did.

Yes same here xpost

Hey Jeff thanks. Judging by that review they mostly played the. We one and the last, moving frontier (few tracks). Hope that changes but can’t blame them for moving forward

New one ***

i'd be surprised if they played the US unless something weird happened and this album got loads of attention. Their last planned tour about 10 years ago (maybe more) got cancelled. Things haven't gotten any easier either.

Yeah otm

They’re the definition of niche. Never achieved the success of broadcast or stereolab. Opened for pulp and played with phone, can’t imagine it rippled any waves

Plone

THere's a live set from Birmingham o the 20th of July circulating. Haven't listened to it yet. Am just listening to the new lp.

Where can it be heard

Dimeadozen

New pram is classic as fuck

Agreed

My man

Love your thoughts on it in the other thread

I don't know why I didn't listen to them much before, they are pretty much exactly my kind of thing

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