Penguin Cafe Rain Before Seven... Sticker composing over a Barry White

composing over a Barry White sample

Grace/Confusion inhabits more the title's first word than the last

Of Home (Gibbard)

the emphasis is as much on her writing as on her playing

Penguin Cafe Rain Before Seven... Sticker composing over a Barry WhiteA 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,