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Jolly New Songs
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Jolly New Songs – Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records description
Nothing hurts harder than a surprise ending, and the title track of this album has a real face-slap of one. One minute you’re in bliss, carried away in a crescendo of spine-tingling post-rock guitars and soft, wordless oohs, the next you’re through – the song’s out the door, down the street, pulling away from the kerb and into a new life.
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Jolly New Songs – Ici d’ailleurs description
Y avait-il vraiment effet de surprise quant à la découverte soudaine d’un groupe polonais capable de prendre d’entrée de jeu une place fort honorable sur la scène indé internationale ? Pas vraiment dans un sens, chacun étant capable d’envisager que l’accès rapide et mondialisé à tous types de sons soit désormais ouvert au moindre groupe de province d’un pays dit « de l’est ».
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Jim McGuinn
While sometimes hearing rock and roll played from a non-English as first language country can be alarmingly bad or cartoonish, sometimes you hear the most interesting stuff imaginable.
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Ron Hart
One of my favorite bands out of Europe these days is Trupa Trupa out of Gdansk, Poland.
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Interview with Backseat Mafia
Trupa Trupa is a psychedelic no wave band from Gdansk, Poland. Their stylistic approach recalls work by bands like Shellac, Swans, Slint and Beak>. There is such discordance, tension and intensity in their compositions that it feels like the band is genuinely inclined to deconstruct the traditional rock format.
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Jolly New Songs preview – The Quietus
Gdansk-based Trupa Trupa announce their second album for Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records.
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BBC Radio 6 Music
Trupa Trupa right now on BBC Radio 6 Music! “To Me” is the “Headphone Moment” on the Morning Show. The Beeb described it as “Epic beyond words!”
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Jolly New Songs preview – The Sunday Experience
Prepare to be arrested and smittened, for looming on a distant horizon, a new full length from Trupa Trupa waits in patient quiet majesty.
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Review of our gig at OFF Festival – Drowned In Sound
I’m glad to see plenty of other Polish acts dotting the bill as well, and the country’s busy musical underground doesn’t let us down.
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Review of our gig at OFF Festival – The Quietus Magazine
It’s good to see Polish acts taking a more prominent placing on the bill and again, this is down to talent more than any other factors.
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Jolly New Songs preview – KEXP
Another of the great Polish bands at OFF this year is Trupa Trupa from the city of Gdansk in the North of Poland.
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The Quietus
A preview of this years OFF Festival by The Quietus magazine and we’re in.
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Culture.pl
Now in its twelfth year, OFF Festival in Katowice continues to cement its position as one of the best festivals in Europe for eclectic music lovers. Culture.pl presents some recommendations for a festival where the audience is spoilt for choice.
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The Lexington
UK gig alert! We’re glad to announce that we will play in The Lexington, London on September 2.
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Headache remastered review – Adverse Effect magazine
The last track, ‘Picture Yourself’, on this remastered reissue of the third album by this Gdansk-based group, serves a triumphant and anthemic close to an approach converging indie-rock sensibilities with a clearly more experimental yearnings.
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Szczecin
See you in Szczecin on the 1th of July.
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A nice announcement from OFF Festival
Released in 2015, the album Headache made quiet a storm in Poland and especially abroad. It garnered universal praise, from The Quietus, through Sub Pop’s Jonathan Poneman, to Sasha Frere-Jones, who, in a post for the LA Times, hailed Headache as one of the year’s top records.
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Sopot
See you in Sopot on the 14th of June.
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Headache remastered review – The Sound Projector
A case of discovery and reactivation then as Headache, Trupa Trupa‘s third release, first came into existence on the ‘Blue Tapes & X-Ray’ imprint. When Stéphane Grégoire met the four-piece in their Polish homeland, a copy was quickly thrust into his palm and a love affair soon blossomed.