Helium

RELEASE
1995
LABEL
Too Pure
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Dream Pop, Experimental Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock

Album Review

Disconcerting and maze-like, Pram's second full-length effort shapes and refines the ideas of their previous records; Helium's primary components -- Moog burblings, exotic rhythms, and cool-toned horns -- are more typically the building blocks of lounge music, but Pram is instead all about uneasy listening, cutting and pasting schizophrenic sound collages topped off by Rosie Cuckston's unnerving vocals. For all of its inventiveness, however, Helium is often too willfully obscure for its own good. It's no surprise that the best track here, the cinematic "Blue," is also the most focused and subtle, complete with a deep bass groove and jazzy trumpet flourishes.
Jason Ankeny, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Gravity
  2. Dancing on a Star
  3. Night Watch
  4. Things Left on the Pavement
  5. Windy
  6. My Father the Clown
  7. Blue
  8. Little Angel, Little Monkey
  9. Meshes in the Afternoon
  10. Shadows