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Title: Pram's 1st album, but NOT the place to start
Review: I adore Pram. I don't have all their work so can't comment completely, but I find this one of the more difficult works to get into. They are known for quirkiness (odd beats and sounds and instruments), a post-rock sound a la stereolab with a more jazzy/Sun Ra side.This 1st CD is much more edgy, claustrophobic: a bit noisy, a bit of early Moonshake. Really, it is as if Pram is trying to get 70's Siouxsie and the Banshees to play a Pram song (a whisper of gothic in the quirkiness.)"Day the Animals Turned on the Cars" - an entertaining instrumental ala film before audio, like Vertov"Dead Piano" - noisier post-punk-rockI like this debut CD of theirs a lot better than when i first got it, but I'd recommend those new to Pram start with "Helium", "Museum of Imaginary Animals" or "Dark Island". This has its meritts and certainly some will defend it vigorously.
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