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GoGo Penguin: Everything Is Going to Be OK
ByPart of the fascination (as always) lies in how they shape the piano trio's traditional analogue sound. Jon Scott sounds nicely settled in his new role on the drum stool, with a series of snappy bubbling grooves more organic than static. Chris Illingworth's piano exists half in rave-chill territory thanks to playing with reverb and semi-muffled strings. The likes of "Saturnine" or "Parasite" spin these colorful bonging and shimmering tones into a kind of acoustic Afro-dub, while "Soon Comes Night" pans some echoing piano notes back and forth until it feels trippy enough for an actual dance riff.
Everything Is Going To Be OK often leans on those dreamy feels for emotional depth, coming as the product of a very emotional time for the trio. Both personal losses and personal connections add to the lows and highs this time around. Nick Blacka bows his bass to provide some resonant shades for the album's vastest cinematic peaks, and his and Illingworth's solo interludes make the band's most starkly thoughtful moments to date.
But an album with this title cannot stay too low for too long, and the bittersweet is offset with its share of moments like the recurring "You're Stronger Than You Think," which go from floaty to buoyant. It makes a promising launch for GGP 3.0, showing all their fun grooving and epic sweeping shaded with a little more heart.
Track Listing
You're Stronger Than You Think; Glimmerings; Saturnine; Glow; Friday Film Special; Soon Comes Night; An Unbroken Thread of Awareness; We May Not Stay; Everything Is Going to Be OK; Last Breath; You're Stronger Than You Think (Revisit); Parasite; Sanctuary.
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Title: Everything Is Going to Be OK | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: Sony/XXIM
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