The Moving Frontier

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The Moving Frontier
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Studio album by
Released1 October 2007
Genre Avant-garde
Length44:30
Label Domino Records [1]
Pram chronology
Dark Island
(2003)
The Moving Frontier
(2007)
Across the Meridian
(2018)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Moving Frontier is an album by Pram, released in 2007. [3] [4]

Contents

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that "exotica, '60s and '70s electronic novelty pop, and noir-ish jazz are still major influences on Pram's music, and on their instrumentals they mimic and modernize those sounds like few other bands can." [2] NME deemed the album "45 minutes of bland, jazzy, nonsense." [5] Clash thought that Pram had become "immersed in overtly odd, bloated high-art plodding." [6]

Track listing

  1. 'The Empty Quarter'
  2. 'Salt and Sand'
  3. 'Iske'
  4. 'The City Surveyor'
  5. 'Sundew'
  6. 'Salva'
  7. 'Moonminer'
  8. 'Hums Around Us'
  9. 'Metaluna'
  10. 'Beluga'
  11. 'Blind Tiger'
  12. 'Mariana Deep'
  13. 'Compass Rose'
  14. 'The Silk Road'

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pram - The Moving Frontier | The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk.
  2. 1 2 "The Moving Frontier - Pram | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
  3. "Pram Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  4. Harper, Simon (17 October 2007). "Linked by a penchant for the unusual". Birmingham Post. Features. p. 12.
  5. "Pram: 'The Moving Frontier'". NME. 27 September 2007.
  6. "Pram - The Moving Frontier". Clash Magazine.