The Moving Frontier Explained

The Moving Frontier
Type:	Album
Artist:	Pram
Cover:	themovingfrontier.Jpg
Released:	1 October 2007
Genre:	Avant-garde
Length:	44:30
Label:	Domino Records^[1]
Prev Title:	Dark Island
Prev Year:	2003
Next Title:	Across the Meridian
Next Year:	2018

The Moving Frontier is an album by Pram, released in 2007.^{[2] [3]}

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." NME deemed the album "45 minutes of bland, jazzy, nonsense."^[4] Clash thought that Pram had become "immersed in overtly odd, bloated high-art plodding."^[5]

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

• Rosie Cuckston – vocals, keyboards, omnichord
• Matt Eaton - guitar, bass guitar, sampler, keyboards
• Sam Owen – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, accordion, woodwind
• Max Simpson – keyboards, sampler
• Laurence Hunt – drums, percussion
• Harry Dawes – trumpet, trombone
• Natalie Mason – viola
• Grandmaster Gareth – cello, string arrangements

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pram - The Moving Frontier | The Skinny. www.theskinny.co.uk.
2. Web site: Pram Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
3. News: Harper . Simon . Linked by a penchant for the unusual . Birmingham Post . 17 Oct 2007 . Features . 12.
4. Web site: Pram: 'The Moving Frontier'. NME. September 27, 2007.
5. Web site: Pram - The Moving Frontier. Clash Magazine. October 2007 .