GoGo Penguin Necessary Fictions

• 1. Umbra
• 2. Fallowfield Loops
• 3. Forgive The Damages (feat Daudi Matsiko)
• 4. What We Are & What We Are Meant To Be
• 5. Background Hiss Reminds Me Of Rain
• 6. The Turn Within
• 7. Living Bricks In Dead Mortar
• 8. Naga Ghost
• 9. Luminous Giants (feat Rakhi Singh & Manchester Collective)
• 10. Float
• 11. State Of Flux (feat Manchester Collective)
• 12. Silence Speaks

Over a decade into their genre-skirting journey, Manchester's GoGo Penguin return with Necessary Fictions, a soft and progressive post-punk musing on an unsettling anthropological concept. While still grounded in the interplay of Chris Illingworth's piano, Nick Blacka's bass and Jon Scott's drums, the record now brings modular synths, string players from the Manchester Collective, and - for the first time ever - a voice: Daudi Matsiko, who appears on 'Forgive The Damages', offers a quietly disarming presence in a band known for its instrumentals. 'Fallowfield Loops' offers a familiar taste, meanwhile, of the band's inceptive grooves, while its music video visually centres on the uni-nostalgic Toast Rack building in the heart of Manchester's student quarter.