GoGo Penguin - Discography (2012-2020)

GoGo Penguin are an English band from Manchester, England, featuring pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka, and drummer Rob Turner.
The band's music features break-beats, minimalist piano melodies, powerful basslines, drums inspired from electronica and anthemic riffs. They compose and perform as a unit. Their music incorporates elements of electronica, trip-hop, jazz, rock and classical music.

Critics have described GoGo Penguin's music with references to Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Massive Attack, Brian Eno, modern classical composers Shostakovich and Debussy, or contemporary minimal music composers like Philip Glass.

Fanfares is the debut album by jazz piano trio GoGo Penguin. In 2013, this album was nominated for best jazz album at the Worldwide Awards.

Tracklist
01. Seven Sons Of Bjorn 05:17
02. Last Words 03:05
03. Unconditional 05:15
04. Fanfares 04:53
05. I Am That 04:05
06. Akasthesia 06:01
07. HF 06:36

About v2.0, Bruce Lindsay says in All About Jazz that "v2.0 is the sound of a band moving forward—not in leaps and bounds, but in small steps. There's really no need to jump headlong into the unknown when the foundations set down on Fanfares were so strong. v2.0 builds on those foundations with style, further establishing GoGo Penguin as one of the most exciting young bands on the contemporary scene."

This album was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2014.

Tracklist
01. Murmuration 04:12
02. Garden Dog Barbecue 03:44
03. Kamaloka 05:21
04. Fort 03:17
05. One Percent 05:35
06. Home 05:21
07. The Letter 06:14
08. To Drown In You 06:28
09. Shock And Awe 03:13
10. Hopopono 03:54

Man Made Object is the third album by jazz piano trio GoGo Penguin. It's their first of a three-album deal with the jazz label Blue Note. About the name of their third album, the pianist Chris Illingworth explain that the title is partly inspired by his fascination with ideas of robotics, transhumanism and human augmentation.

Tracklist
01. All Res 05:15
02. Unspeakable World 04:43
03. Branches Break 04:22
04. Weird Cat 05:39
05. Quiet Mind 04:23
06. Smarra 06:31
07. Initiate 04:47
08. GBFISYSIH 03:21
09. Surrender To Mountain 03:58
10. Protest 04:45
Bonus Track:
11. Unspeakable World (Matthew Herbert's Onc Workout) 06:00
12. Initiate (Stray Remix) 03:34
13. All Res (Dabrye Remix) 04:33

A Humdrum Star is the fourth studio album by English band GoGo Penguin. It was released in February 2018 under Blue Note Records.

Tracklist
01. Prayer 02:54
02. Raven 04:57
03. Bardo 07:14
04. A Hundred Moons 04:28
05. Strid 08:10
06. Transient State 05:59
07. Return To Text 05:22
08. Reactor 06:17
09. Window 05:21
10. So It Begins 04:01
11. A Hundred Moons (Alternative Version) 03:40

GoGo Penguin is the eponymous fifth studio album by English band GoGo Penguin. It was released on 5 June 2020 under Blue Note Records
GoGo Penguin was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81, based on 5 reviews.

Tracklist
01. 1_# (02:02)
02. Atomised (04:23)
03. Signal In The Noise (06:03)
04. Open (04:47)
05. F Maj Pixie (05:48)
06. Kora (05:35)
07. Totem (03:54)
08. Embers (03:00)
09. To The Nth (04:34)
10. Don’t Go (03:38)


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