This biography of Penguin Prison, like the artist himself, will not try to distract you with artifice. Most press release biographies are full of the kind of hyperbolic language that makes you cringe. With phrases like "best new artist of the year" and "this year's musical find," you would be forgiven for wanting to throw such a document in the fireplace along with every other artist biography that claims to herald the next big thing.

So here is Penguin Prison, short (ish) and sweet:

Penguin Prison is a project of musician Chris Glover. It's dance music and it's pop music.

Glover started performing as a kid in New York, where his early musical experiences included singing in a gospel choir alongside Alicia Keys and playing in various punk bands at clubs in lower Manhattan.

In college, Glover and some friends started a boy band as a joke called ‘The Smartest People at Bard," and the group ended up drawing bigger crowds than the real bands that came to play on campus.

Still experimenting with different styles of music, Glover sent a demo tape of himself rapping to Q-Tip who responded enthusiastically and offered to sign the New York college student to a new label. Unfortunately the label fell through and so did the signing.

It proved a launching pad though, and in 2005 he was signed to Interscope Records, making an album that never came out. At that point his music was very different. There was hip hop mixed with pop, rock, soul and any other genre Glover felt like experimenting with. "The album was all over the place," he says.

Stung, but undeterred, he began taking inspiration from friends like Girl Talk and fellow New Yorkers Holy Ghost! and decided to focus on making ‘dance' music, although his new batch of songs are hardly that straightforward.

"I feel like I can do any type of music. But now I'm taking all my influences from different genres and trying to put them all together into one sound."

Indeed, the two tracks set to be released this November on Neon Gold Records, show just how much of a success he's made of that desire. Written and produced with his friend Noah Loha, and recorded with mostly analog equipment, they prove Penguin Prison's sound to be hard to classify, but still completely instant.

'Animal Animal' finds itself somewhere between Hot Chip and the Jackson Five, full of quirky charm and winning lyrics expressing envy for the way animals live: ‘I don't want to think anymore/ about anything that I can't see'.

Glover says it's "about being a human being in modern society and thinking too much and wishing that you didn't have to."

In a sense, that's what this project is about: dance music for people who can't turn off their brains.

Penguin Prison's production work is already well known from remixes of Golden Silvers' True Romance and his textured re-imagining of Marina & the Diamonds' ‘I Am Not a Robot', but the new Penguin Prison tracks are something else entirely. Ah, but what of that name? "It wouldn't make sense if I explained it," the artist says, closing the door on any potential name discussions.

Only one thing truly makes sense in Penguin Prison's world, and that's the perfection of the songs. For as diverse as its influences are, the integrity of this sublimely addictive music justifies the chaos.

But this biography has gone on long enough. Here's what other artists are saying about Penguin Prison:

"With almost any band, you can easily point to their influences and contemporaries, but I really don't know anyone doing the same thing as him. It's radio-worthy pop made by a completely sincere and normal dude." - Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis)

"Truly floating on rarified air." - Q - Tip

"He has the voice of an angel and is the best guitar player I know. He can do an amazing Aaron Neville impression. He sang backup vocals on "Hold On," co-wrote "I Will Come Back" and has co-written and/or played and/or sang on much of our in progress LP. In short, he's our bro." - Nick from Holy Ghost!