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Jul 20, 2018Every 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.
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Jul 20, 2018A 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.
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Q MagazineJul 13, 2018Sam Owen's milky vocals give these songs a bloodless, etiolated quality that's as sinister as it is pretty. [Summer 2018, p.114]
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UncutAug 16, 2018Despite a newfound sound-design sophistication, they haven't lost their love of twisted, Stylophone-assisted pop or tape-recording collage methods, and their arthouse-cinema leaning is still evident. [Oct 2018, p.32]
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The WireJul 13, 2018Pram find themselves in a rather difficult position, where it doesn’t seem as if they’ve much room to evolve without changing the atmosphere of the project completely. That said, Across The Meridian tentatively paws at a few new directions even as it remains mindful of the group’s palette to date. [Jul 2018, p.57]
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Jul 13, 2018It 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. Although, that also means that, more so than Pram’s previous work, it often slips innocuously into the background.
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Jul 24, 2018A 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.
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MojoJul 13, 2018The result is a dreamlike state of unease and wonder, in which you don't know where you are, or what's coming next. [Aug 2018, p.94]