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.
Jolly Winter Tour: France, Switzerland, Poland and USA.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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, το τέταρτο άλμπουμ των Πολωνών Trupa Trupa – ενός post-punk-psych κουαρτέτου- εμπεριέχει πλήθος αισθητικών εναλλαγών και αλλά κυρίως ρυθμών.
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.
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”).
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’”
The idea of psychedelic music within the last half century has expanded greatly. And in 2017, its concept has shifted closer to the concept of Sigur Ros than Soft Machine.
Trupa Trupa are four mates from Gdansk who make fabulously morbid catchy music. From the review by Richard Foster in The Quietus: „You can appreciate, therefore, that they are the sort of act you can become slowly fascinated by, without noticing any prior impetus to do so.” This is exactly what happened to me.
Shame, HMLTD and Trupa Trupa among the best European rock bands of 2017 by Europavox!
METZ, Liars and Trupa Trupa with Jolly New Songs! Newsweek USA puts Jolly on the list of the 11 great overlooked albums of 2017!
Omdlí? Neomdlí. Něco ale vzlíná z podlahy, v drobných pramíncích proudí přes pantofle a ponožky pod tenkou kůží mezi prsty, jeho tělo pohlcuje strach jako vlásečnice krev, strach do něj zvolna vstupuje. V žilách na nohou se tenké pramínky slévají, houstnou a černají, vzlínají výš a výš, stehny a pánví, výš, do břišní dutiny, prodírají se střevy, nacházejí žaludek, obklopují ho a on už cítí, jak se mu kolem žaludku utahuje strašlivá smyčka strachu.
Big thanks to Tome To The Weather Machine for including Jolly New Songs in their top 50 list of 2017!
Jolly New Songs appears in the top 10 albums of 2017 by Jim McGuinn of The Current!
Auf ihrem neuen Album Jolly New Songs gleitet die vierkopfige polnische band Trupa Trupa auf einer Welle aus (Emo-)Post-Funk-, Krautrock-, Noise- und psychedelischen Sixties-Elementen dahin.
Découvert il y a deux ans et très apprécié dans ces colonnes, le quatuor post-punk Polonais Trupa Trupa revient avec un nouvel album plus lumineux.