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Pram Go Behind The Mask
I don't want to give away too much about the above clip for Pram's "Beluga," so I will just say that the black-and-white clip, which chronicles the surreal adventures of a masked women, is quite well-matched to the band's recent turn toward what I keep thinking of as a "bossa nova horror-film" aesthetic, and it served to remind me that I've been woefully delinquent in listening to their fine album The Moving Frontier, the 11th (!) of their career; it's mostly frosty, moody instrumentals that are scoring an epic movie in some genius' head, but there are a few appearances by the stunning voice of Rosie Cuckston. It's still not out in the States yet, but hey, maybe someday. As an extra treat, the fuzzed-out video for their 1998 track "Sleepy Sweet" is after the jump. More »
The roster on this flyer is kind of impossibly awesome: a '90s U.K. post-rock who's who assembled for a '90s Christmas show that I know some Idolator readers (and editors) would have cut off a thumb (post-thumb?) to have seen, including Stereolab, Moonshake, Pram, Disco Inferno, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and pre-"Asha" Cornershop. Or perhaps some of you lucky Brits did get to attend! The rest of us can cry about it while enjoying classic MP3s from Moonshake (whose still-in-print Eva Luna LP remains an under-appreciated dub-rock treasure), Stereolab, Disco Inferno (whose out-of-print EPs remain slightly-less-under-appreciated sample-rock treasures), and Maura-fave 
