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Necessary Fictions

GoGo Penguin

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2025
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Tracks

Umbra; Fallowfield Loops; Forgive the Damages; What We Are and What We Are Meant to Be; Background Hiss Reminds Me of Rain; The Turn Within; Living Bricks in Dead Mortar; Naga Ghost; Luminous Giants; Float (Loi Krathong, 2003); State of Flux; Silence Speaks.

Personnel

GoGo Penguin

band / ensemble / orchestra

Chris Illingworth

piano

Nick Blacka

bass

Jon Scott

drums

Additional Personnel / Information

Manchester Collective: strings (9, 11); Daudi Matsiko: guitar, voice (3); Rakhi Singh: violin (9).

Album Description

For GoGo Penguin, the Manchester trio who’ve inspirationally blended jazz, classical and electronic influences since forming in 2012, the searching impulse in their music has reached a thrilling moment on their new seventh long- player. Called ‘Necessary Fictions’, it finds pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Jon Scott digging deep internally, says Blacka, to reach “what we think are our integral, authentic qualities at this moment in time”. That entails some of their boldest moves to date, such as incorporating modular synthesizers into their sound more than ever before. ‘Necessary Fictions’ is an album of ambitious fresh developments, from a band fully at ease with who they are: confident enough to open the door to collaboration, excited about where they can explore next, and also keen to have fun doing so. “I was very aware of smiling a lot in the studio while we were making it,” says Illingworth, “and I’m smiling now just thinking about it. I hope that energy translates to people”.