Pram

A band whose name perfectly sums up their aesthetic, Birmingham, England's Pram create evocative - and very British - electronic pop that's equally childlike and sophisticated, unsettling, and quaint. As inspired by children's television and animation as the experiments of Can, Faust, The Raincoats, Alice Coltrane and The Residents, the band's vision was clear from the start. On early albums such as Helium (1994) and the following year's Sargasso Sea, they textured odd melodies and hypnotic beats with toy pianos, triangles, glockenspiels, glass hammers, and even a Hawaiian bubble machine.