“Pop is not a type of music at all. It’s a way of listening,” raved the late, great Neil Kulkarni in his piece about the importance of Pram.

If this is true, the Birmingham band is a quintessential British-pop act (not Britpop, certainly not!).

Formed in 1988, their sound dances around the electronic and the analog, employs unconventional instruments and draws on krautrock, exotica and dub as much as anything classically “British”.

Releasing via legendary labels Too Pure, Duophonic and Domino (where they remain today following their reunion release ‘Across The Meridian’ in 2018), they are one of the most criminally underappreciated, original and confounding bands in history.

No release is the same but all are identifiably “Pram”.

‘Across the Meridian’ celebrates their iconic quirkiness in a beautifully constructed and tautly produced soundworld. It mixes instrumentals and songs, weaving a gleeful path through the musical territory of film scores, 30s jazz, sun-drenched pop, electronica, hip-hop sampling and post-punk experimentation.

The band use a bewildering array of instruments and are unrepentantly unfazed by the possibilities of performing on anything and everything that seems appropriate. With no official web presence, Pram represents echoes from a forgotten past that sounds like the future without embracing its trappings.

This is a rare East Midlands live outing from a band that should not be missed.