The Moving Frontier

The Moving Frontier
Studio album by Pram
Released	1 October 2007
Genre	Avant-garde
Length	44:30
Label	Domino Records[1]
Pram chronology
Dark Island (2003) The Moving Frontier (2007) Across the Meridian (2018)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Skinny	[1]

The Moving Frontier is an album by Pram, released in 2007.[3][4]

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

• 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

References

1. "Pram - The Moving Frontier | The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk.
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. October 2007.