Primavera

Gig alert! We play two shows at Barcelona’s Primavera Festival!

Liverpool Sound City review

Intense boulder-crunching Polish doom-laden rock. Everyone looks like they’ve been hit with a wet fish.

BBC Radio 1

We debuted on BBC Radio 1! Huw Stephens and Rebecca Ayres recomend our Liverpool Sound City saturday gig and play “To Me”.

SXSW / Sound Opinions

Rock critics Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis discuss Trupa Trupa gig at SXSW on Sound Opinions, calling TT a “buried treasure” of the whole SXSW Festival!

SXSW / Pop Theology

On a completely different note, let’s consider Polish psychedelic noise rockers Trupa Trupa.

NPR

„This sound, this song and this band lands perfectly in the nexus of everything I love most in music.”

Robin Hilton, NPR

Jolly New Songs review – Rockdelux

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, líder de la banda polaca Trupa Trupa, es un poeta de cierto renombre en su país natal, con alguno de sus libros traducidos al inglés y el alemán. Su álbum anterior, Headache (2015), tercero en su discografía, alcanzó cierta re-percusión en el mundo anglosajón, y ahora, con JoIIy New Songs, aspiran a consolidar lo logrado.

Jolly New Songs review – La Provincia

Polonia se ha convertido en una excelente cantera para el postrock de última generación. El grupo Popsysze lo lleva demostrando desde hace años y Trupa Trupa coloca estos sonidos por terrenos pocos transitados.

David Fricke

The legendary David Fricke of Rolling Stone discovers Trupa Trupa on SiriusXM Radio!

Interview for THE APOLOGIST

La ville de Gdansk est plus connue pour son passé chargé d’histoire plutôt que pour sa scène musicale. Entre pessimisme et sombres heures de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, la cité polonaise bordée par la Mer Baltique n’a pas dit son dernier mot et l’avenir semble d’un coup beaucoup moins morose et pessimiste, comme emprunte d’un renouveau à l’écoute des quatre gaillards de Trupa Trupa.

Winter Tour

Jolly Winter Tour: France, Switzerland, Poland and USA.

About John Wesley Harding – The Recoup

One of us made a little contribution to The Recoup’s article about Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding’s 50th anniversary. Big thanks to Ron Hart, author of the article and the others who talked about the album – Chad Vangaalen, A.J. Croce, Amy Rigby, Jeff Klein and Winston Cook-Wilson.

Jolly New Songs review – Tiny Mix Tapes

I’m with C these days — vocal-based rock music can pretty much go suck a lemon, because I just have some sort of medulla oblongata–based involuntary function to scratch with non-rock releases. Read: give me experimental or give me death! (Or, uh, at least something better to listen to.)

Jolly New Songs review – Nouvelle Vague

Venu tout droit de Gdansk, le groupe Trupa Trupa nous présente son dernier album intitulé « Jolly New Songs ». Brillant et étrange mélange entre clair et obscur, oscillant entre les différentes gammes de gris et sa palette si singulière, forment malgré tout un son cohérent.

Jolly New Songs review – Indie Rock Mag

Avec Jolly New Songs, les Polonais de Trupa Trupa dévoilent déjà leur quatrième long-format. Au moment de présenter cette sortie, leurs bagages sont pourtant lestés d’un élément absent jusqu’alors : la pression.

Jolly New Songs review – Debaser

Nutro una insana passione per i dischi recuperati sul finire dell’anno. Ogni anno mi capita di innamorarmi di un disco appena prima di stilare una ideale classifica dei migliori dell’annata trascorsa, e anche il 2017 non è stato differente dagli anni precedenti.

Jolly New Songs review – Το Περιοδικό

Jolly New Songs, το τέταρτο άλμπουμ των Πολωνών Trupa Trupa – ενός post-punk-psych κουαρτέτου- εμπεριέχει πλήθος αισθητικών εναλλαγών και αλλά κυρίως ρυθμών.

Jolly New Songs review – De Subjectivisten

De Poolse groep Trupa Trupa uit Gdańsk timmert sinds 2009 op geheel eigen wijze aan de weg. Na twee albums in eigen beheer, lijken ze met hun derde Headache (2015) ook over de landsgrenzen een publiek aan te boren.

Interview with TQ zine

Trupa Trupa are an avant-psych-post-punk band from Gdańsk, Poland. Their 2015 album, ‘Headache’ (Blue Tapes/X-Ray Records) brought their skewed take on underground rock to the attention of respected voyagers such as Tristan Bath at The Quietus (“always clever, often beautiful and at times very angry guitar music that defies definition”) and Sasha Frere Jones of the LA Times (“one of the best rock bands doing business right now”).

Jolly New Songs review – TQ zine

OK, I know there’s some of you out there that don’t give a flying turntable arm stylus about an artist’s nationality, if the sounds are good, they’re good. Right? The merits of this approach aint something I’m about to ponder, discuss, or disagree with here, and in fact I do agree that if it’s worth listening to, what does it matter what nationality the band are? However, when a band as good as Trupa Trupa (from Poland!) remain under the radar for too long, questions need to be asked. Whatever the question, the answer will always be the same; “Go listen to ‘Jolly New Songs’”