Pram

Pram set out on tour in 2025 with another LP on the horizon featuring a new
member of the collective. The first release since 2018 sees the band build on
their distinctive soundscape with added textures and a raw and powerful live
show careering from eerie to bone-shaking.

Fliss Kitson has built a reputation as a commanding and charismatic drummer
through her work with The Nightingales and Violet Violet. Her presence has
cemented a new partnership in the rhythm section with Sam Owen firmly back
behind the bass on a majority of numbers, exploring a path from Krautrock to
dub and back. There is also a new musical relationship on vocals with Kitson’s
powerful pop sensibility off-set by Owen’s haunting and wistful presence.

The band still use a bewildering array of instruments and are unrepentantly
unfazed by the possibilities of performing on anything and everything that seems
appropriate. “It’s not possible to develop a facility on every instrument we want
to use” explains founder member and multi-instrumentalist Sam Owen, “so we
simply don’t worry about it and look instead for the initial thrill of discovering a
new sound”. The addition of mountain dulcimer and trombonist/theremin player
Harry Dawes’ sometimes playful, occasionally mournful soprano saxophone are
a testament to this continued experimentation in the new set.