Music From The Penguin Café Orchestra

2025 sees Penguin Cafe bringing the music of the legendary Penguin Cafe Orchestra back to life, with UK dates featuring a collection of PCO classics, celebrating the unique sound that has captivated audiences worldwide.

To coincide with this revival, six original PCO albums are being re-released on vinyl for the first time since their initial pressings, courtesy of [INTEGRAL] / Universal Music Recordings at the end of 2024 and will be available to buy at live shows .

“Some of the most unusual and delightful music of the last 40 years” The Guardian

“Culturally omnivorous instrumentals of considerable elegance and ingenuity” Mojo

“The Penguins are back on top form” Daily Telegraph

“Arthur’s Dad would be proud” The Independent

“Bouncy minimalist quavers, global folk influences and genteel surrealism. He shares his father’s talent for painting delightful scenes with limited palettes” The Wire

“Jeffes has safeguarded the Orchestra’s broad, eccentric range of instruments, and shifts effortlessly from drones to good-natured, pastoral pleasures” Uncut

“The songs inhabit their own unique sound world, of contemporary minimalist, classical and chamber music with the surrealist otherness of a dream world, taking the listener to somewhere else entirely” The Quietus

“Warm, welcoming, and utterly enchanting” Drowned In Sound

“Stately and bouncy in equal measure” Pitchfork

“Sincerity and high craft of composition” Mixmag

“Joyous and life affirming” Electronic Sound