As always, Pram combines eclectic musical ideas and instrumentation (theramin, zither, toy piano, glass hammer, glockenspiel) with a wide range of influences and styles (pop, jazz, dub, hip hop, and rock). At the center of it all are Rosie Cuckston's riveting and hypnotic vocal delivery and a puzzlebox of lyrics. The world evoked is one of fairy tales, dreams and nightmares come to life. Dark Island is a somnambulist's dance through the netherworlds of escapist imagination.

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?It's true that Pram has shared the same bubbly, French-pop sound of Stereolab and Broadcast. But that's where the similarities end. A few cuts into The Museum of Imaginary Animals the seven-piece band -- which includes the recent addition of ex-Broadcast drummer Steve Perkins, no less -- makes a beautiful departure into a surreal journey of sound. Rosie Cuckston's reserved vocals help, but it's Pram's original combination of devices (flute, trumpet, and theremin, to name a few) that occasionally evoke an ...   [ read more ]

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?Rather like their friends and former labelmates Stereolab, Pram have moved from an austere and challenging form of {experimental rock} into something considerably mellower and more accessible. However, where Stereolab has glided from album to album, making incremental changes to their sound each time out, which compound into something more striking, Pram's changes tend to be more abrupt. Indeed, 1998's North Pole Radio Station doesn't sound much like Pram's earlier records at all. There's almost no hint o...   [ read more ]

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