First convening in Birmingham around fifteen years ago, Pram have constantly displayed the steeliness of purpose and locked together vision of outsider artists. Their discography feels like a guidebook to a set of disconcertingly familiar but remote places; and it reads like one too: Dark Island, North Pole Radio Station, The Museum of Imaginary Animals. The band’s sound is the soundtrack to these spaces: Rosie Cuckson’s lambent voice, ghosted keyboards, the rhythm as texture, all operating together to a strange heartbeat – a kind of lighthouse bulb glow.

The Moving Frontier is Pram at their most widescreen, they’ve created a mysterious and wonderful landscape that’s sky-wide open.

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Releases

• The Moving Frontier - album, out 01/10/2007 on Domino Records. (post review)
• Dark Island - album, out 20/01/2003 on Domino Records. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Sun 18 Nov at Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach. (post review)
• Fri 16 Nov at Cambridge Man On The Moon. 1 review (read/post)
• Mon 15 Oct at Birmingham Town Hall. (post review)
• Sat 13 Oct at Brighton West Hill Hall. (post review)
• Thu 11 Oct at Leicester Basement. (post review)
• Sun 07 Oct at London Corsica Studios. (post review)
• Fri 05 Oct at Leeds Brudenell Social Club. (post review)
• Thu 31 May at London Cargo. (post review)
• Mon 14 May at London Notting Hill Arts Club. (post review)
• Sat 28 Apr at Birmingham The Medicine Bar at The Custard Factory. (post review)

News

• 26/09/2007: Shady express: Bard on the run
• 06/09/2007: Pram to tour new album this winter
• 06/08/2007: Capsule announce special Birmingham Town Hall show
• 11/12/2002: New Pram album; 10 years of Domino Records

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