GoGo Penguin created their 2023 full-length Everything Is Going to Be OK in order to cope with loss and tragedy. By the time they started working on Necessary Fictions, they were ready to have fun again. The trio challenged their preconceived notions of who they are and what they do, incorporating different influences, more synthesizers, and working with guest musicians. While they’re essentially an acoustic, instrumental jazz trio, they’ve always played with rhythms influenced by dance music, indie rock, and minimalism, with drums sounding closer to breakbeats than traditional jazz drumming. On Necessary Fictions, they frequently use modular synthesizers, though they often create tones that sound closer to acoustic than synthetic.

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