In a modern jazz landscape oriented around the London scene, Manchester-based trio GoGo Penguin strike a resounding blow for the north. “Kamaloka” may be the key to their genre-bucking sonic approach: a swelling, 5-minute tempest built on drummer Rob Turner’s wiry, dubstep-indebted beat, Nick Blacka’s low-slung bass and the nudging propulsion of Chris Illingworth's piano. It is a sort of slow-build alchemy that, perhaps, as the band themselves would have it, is closer to acoustic electronica than traditional jazz. Still, however you label it—from the polyrhythmic bustle of 2012’s Fanfares through newer tracks like the billowing “Ocean in a Drop” and the ambient, pulsing “Kora”—what Gogo Penguin do has an undeniable power. Precise, lush and cinematic, but with one foot often planted firmly in the enveloping darkness of the dance floor.