Koko,London
The former Mercury contenders’ looping hooks and bass drones are an clever twist in the sage of dance music Related: GoGo Penguin: Man Made thing review – club-alert electronics and jazz Lou Reed said that one chord was fine, two chords pushing it, or three and you were into jazz. Former Mercury contenders GoGo Penguin pushed it to two chords and a few more at Koko,but their looping hooks, steady bass drones and percussion throb nonetheless proved Reed’s implication, and that you can’t put too many bends in a musical narrative without confusing an audience that wants to shake its booty. Their mix of big rock-oriented crescendos,with Chris Illingworth’s Esbjörn Svensson-influenced piano and Nick Blacka’s jazz-bass sound has lately led this original Manchester trio to shift tickets way off the usual jazz circuit at a dizzying rate.
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Source: theguardian.com