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Feb 22, 2018A Humdrum Star is a stunning piece of music making, and almost certainly GoGo Penguin’s best work.
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Feb 20, 2018A Humdrum Star feels like a step beyond the precious experiments of their opening records, a concise and complete statement that defies categorisation and reinforces the vitality of UK jazz at this moment.
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Feb 14, 2018Chris Illingworth’s glistening piano is glacial yet strong and majestic, elegantly floating above the turbulence created by Nick Blacka’s throbbing bass and Rob Turner’s kinetic, febrile drums.
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MojoFeb 9, 2018GoGo Penguin build on its momentum with the most insistent distillation of their potent brand of piano-driven melody and groove. [Mar 2018, p.91]
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Feb 9, 2018The band purportedly balance their compositional process between writing songs on their instruments and utilizing electronic production programs that they then translate to live instrumentation. As a result, these songs have the wave-like flow of electronic dance tracks but with the expansive, acoustic atmosphere of classic ECM recordings.
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Feb 9, 2018Overall, A Humdrum Star is GoGo Penguin’s most cohesive, pleasing record to date.
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Feb 13, 2018A Humdrum Star is largely successful and in a perfect world will be just one of a great many formal experiments for the band.
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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