Penguin Cafe - Rain Before Seven... Artist_Thomas Newman is the disc's highlight

is the disc's highlight

says Sloppy Jane's Haley Dahl of her Saddest Factory debut Madison

treble-damaged guitar lines

Move Through It falls within a canon of sun-addled records spanning from Herb Alpert's "Rotation" to Dam-Funk's Private Life trilogy as Garrett

And for most of these beautiful songs

Penguin Cafe - Rain Before Seven... Artist_Thomas Newman is the disc's highlightA sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafes fifth studio album Rain Before Seven not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably. The title comes from an old weather proverb with the rhyming prognostication fine before eleven hinting at a happy ending,