they're more like the voodoo queens
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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 hammerHorror 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 especiallyMother 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.
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 09:03 (five years ago) link
Also always worth saying trish was a sweetheart
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link
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.
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Hi meaulnes
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 11:38 (five years ago) link
...hi. sorry, im a gobshite.
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
Nah you’re not, I gotta work on my drunk posting myselfWelcome
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
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
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 08:56 (five hours ago) Permalink
Love this description
― daavid, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
pram were more piano magic than broadcast but they all fit in the same continuum
― akm, Thursday, 21 June 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
Listened to North Pole radio station this evening because thread
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 June 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
Excellent record. Pram also have stunning diver set for their records
― mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
My single favorite pram song is on the Meshes EP - “Chrysalis”
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
new record is so good <3
― maura, Monday, 23 July 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
^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.
― Jeff W, Monday, 23 July 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
very glad to hear that maura!
― Ross, Friday, 27 July 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― Keythkeythkeyth, Friday, 27 July 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
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.
― Keythkeythkeyth, Friday, 27 July 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
sam owen plays bass and sings
― maura, Friday, 27 July 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
Current line-up:Sam(antha) Owen - vocals, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, accordion, keyboards, bassMatt Eaton - guitar, samplerMax Simpson - keyboards/synth, sampler, melodicaHarry Dawes - trombone, theremin, stylophoneplus there's an excellent female drummer playing with them live atm
― Jeff W, Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
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
― transcendental headache (Ross), Monday, 30 July 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Oh please do ross
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Monday, 30 July 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
will do jon
anyone care to elaborate on whether there is vocals on this at all
or is it all instrumental
― sleepy sweet (Ross), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
jeff w says above there are vocals
― akm, Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
what are the vocals like
― eris (Ross), Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
screamo
― akm, Thursday, 2 August 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
(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.
― akm, Thursday, 2 August 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
this is a good pram album
― akm, Thursday, 2 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
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.
― Ross, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
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
― Ross, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
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, Friday, 10 August 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
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/
― Jeff W, Saturday, 11 August 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 11 August 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Yes same here xpost
― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
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
― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
New one ***
― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
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.
― akm, Saturday, 11 August 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
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
― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 11 August 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
Where can it be heard
― Abomination Street (Ross), Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
Dimeadozen
― svend, Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
New pram is classic as fuck
― yes, said (Ross), Saturday, 1 September 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Agreed
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 1 September 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
My man
― yes, said (Ross), Sunday, 2 September 2018 05:19 (five years ago) link
Love your thoughts on it in the other thread
― yes, said (Ross), Sunday, 2 September 2018 05:20 (five years ago) link
I don't know why I didn't listen to them much before, they are pretty much exactly my kind of thing
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 2 September 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
Big love ❤️
― yes, said (Ross), Sunday, 2 September 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link