North Pole Radio Station

Pram | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B000094Q3F
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,000,213 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, February 22, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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I like this little band. Pram's music is a low-fi space rock. They use the rhythm box from an old organ as their main source of percussion, play mostly in wierd little minor keys, inserting wierd little electronics over the female singers little voice.

I know not to use the same word three times in a sentence, but "little" discribes Pram's sound, and little is good. If you went to Jupiter and walked into a nightclub and there was a keyboard and a chantuse in a black dress, singing to little green men drinking acid laced space water, that is Pram.

The songs are structured, but the interest emerges with the wierd litte insertions of Pram. You'll never hear these guys on any TV adds.

Well, at least not on earth.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pram!, August 25, 2000

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Lawrence - See all my reviews

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In response to the review below, I think Cuckston's voice is one of the most distinctive and best around. It was one of the first things that attracted me to Pram when I heard Sargasso Sea back in 1996. Her voice is very childlike, which belies the dark and solitary themes of her often brilliant lyrics. The music of Pram is also a mixture of the childlike and the eery, with sometimes very odd and inventive instrumentation. North Pole Radio Station has some bleak and snowy imagery, but also some very sweet moments. Check it out, but also check out any Pram you can find. And be sure to listen to Museum of Imaginary Animals on September 5th.

4.0 out of 5 stars from where the air is thin., March 7, 2011

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Stargrazer "the lost mixtape of my life" (deep in the heart of Michigan) - See all my reviews
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One of Pram's more sonically minimal records, North Pole Radio Station evokes an arctic broadcast. The percussion is kept simple and largely electronic, and arrangements are often adorned with thumb piano, muted brass, bass, spidery guitar, and not much else. There is a lot of open space on this offering, differentiating it from more cinematic (later) records like Museum Of Imaginary Animals or Dark Island. Sparse, dark, and absorbing music provides a bed for Rosie Cuckston's distinctly non-singerly voice, drifting in on nocturnal snowflakes lit by a searchlight.