Recently signed to XXIM Records, Manchester’s unique and quirky jazz trio GoGo Penguin are back with a new EP, following their 2020’s eponymous album. Entitled Between Two Waves, it is their first album with new drummer, Jon Scott, and was recorded at Real World Studios at the tail end of 2021. To get us enticed, Gogo Penguin have shared a magnificent new single called ‘Badeep’. “With this track we were inspired by the idea of taking the listener on a journey”, the band explains. “‘Badeep’ starts and ends with the same simple synth pattern but through the journey you finally arrive somewhere which feels both familiar and alien at the same time.” Take a listen below.

GoGo Penguin released an outstanding second album earlier this year, v2.0, which gained them a nomination for this year’s Mercury Prize. In celebration of this nomination, the tremendously talented trio have just released a Deluxe digital edition of v2.0 featuring three brand new tracks recorded during the original album sessions. We had already heard one of these new tracks, the glorious ‘Break‘. With only one week to go for the Mercury Prize ceremony to take place, and to keep us excited, GoGo Penguin are offering a beautiful animated video for another new track, the gentle and majestic ‘Wash’. The video is by Antony Barkworth-Knight. Here it is.

Hailing from Manchester, rising stars GoGo Penguin are an instrumental jazz trio made up of pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Rob Turner, who burst onto the scene in 2009. Their unique sound combines jazz with various electronic music, drawing influences from Brian Eno, John Cage, Aphex Twin and Squarepusher to “Manchester’s grey rain-streaked urban streets”, as the press release states. “Their instrumentation might be the archetypal piano trio but while the melodic, harmonic and structural ideas are influenced by both classical and jazz the rhythms are drawn from left field electronica and it’s this meeting of opposites that makes their unique acoustic-electronica sound so exciting and creates such an interesting and emotionally rich palate for the listener”.

Earlier this year, GoGo Penguim released their outstanding second album, v2.0, which has just received a nomination for the 2014 Mercury Prize. Make sure to check out the album released via Gondwana Records. To get you enticed, here’s the magnificent closing track, ‘Hopopono’, and it comes with a video, directed by Ric Lowe & Blain Cousin.