Penguin CafeBest Penguin Cafe Albums Ranked

Handfuls of Night

loudandquiet

3.0

“There’s an interesting story behind Penguin Cafe’s latest album: it started life as a collection of songs commissioned by Greenpeace about penguins and the endangered seas of the Antarctic, and is further inspired by bandleader Arthur Jeffes’ own trip to the Arctic in 2005. It must be beautiful and terrible at the Poles; ice in every direction, the sun that never sets, the awed horror at our plane”