Bleep

The group that formed from the ashes of the seminal Penguin Cafe Orchestra return with their third full-length album. This record sees group leader Arthur Jeffes (son of PCO head honcho Simon Jeffes) evince a fine ear for composition, with the classic Penguin Cafe tropes deftly arranged in a manner that allows the nine tracks here to ebb and flow as a whole work. Sawing strings, thrumming double-bass and a cornucopia of sounds from the traditions of jazz, folk and British classical music are spun out to a variety of ends on The Imperfect Sea, from the propulsive motion of opener ‘Ricercar’ to the eerie music-box twinkle of ‘Half Certainty’.