Every journey back to Meridian offers one more dazzling gem, shimmering in the music’s translucent waters just waiting to be discovered. Immerse yourself and become beautifully adrift.
A welcome return, Across the Meridian reaffirms that music is a little weirder and a lot more wonderful with Pram back in it -- it's as if they spent the past decade globe-trotting a world of their own and returned with these brilliant vignettes as souvenirs for their listeners.
It makes for a generally more approachable version of Pram’s eclectic electronic cabaret—one that would make a fine soundtrack to a fever-dream matinee of B-movie sci-fi and gumshoe thrillers.
A bit more laidback than its predecessors and encapsulated by exotic shades, Across the Meridian sits somewhere between Les Baxter’s lovable cheese, the playful ingenuity of Pierre Bastien, and the more twisted corners of a 1970s European TV station library music.
It feels as unfashionable as prog rock in the ’80s, but its confidence befits a group of Pram’s established cult status.
1 | Shimmer and Disappear 3:15 | |
2 | Thistledown 4:15 | |
3 | Electra 4:19 | |
4 | Wave of Translation 3:29 | |
5 | Shadow in Twilight 2:27 | |
6 | Ladder to the Moon 5:39 | |
7 | The Midnight Room 2:39 | |
8 | Footprints Towards Zero 3:36 | |
9 | Mayfly 4:34 | |
10 | Sailing Stones 4:06 | |
11 | Where the Sea Stops Moving 3:22 | |
12 | Doll's Eyes 4:00 |