Headache Review – Something for the weekend
A curious mix of Swans-like gothic psychedelia and Slint post-rock, with a smattering of Germanic influence.
A curious mix of Swans-like gothic psychedelia and Slint post-rock, with a smattering of Germanic influence.
Halleysonme from Headache album on Song by Toad’s podcast.
A band that merges poetry and psychedelia. As the artists call it: ‘a combination between circus at the cemetery and funeral rites in the circus’.
This Gdansk quartet’s craggy, granite-hewn alt rock grooves have been attracting a fair bit of praise on the blogs over the past few months, so it’s an honour to usher their third album through the gates of the We Need No Swords security compound.
Released on both C60 and, somewhat sacrilegiously, compact disc, by the vastly multifaceted UK-based label, Blue Tapes & X-Ray Records, this album from Polish quartet Trupa Trupa (based out of Gdańsk on the country’s north coast) really doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere. Comprising as it does, it’s always clever, often beautiful, and at times very angry guitar music that defies definition.
Trupa Trupa plays home. We are part of the Streetwaves festival lineup, with the gig in the woods of Dolina Radości (The Valley of Joy).
Trupa Trupa plays a gig in Sopot on 2 May. The concert will be broadcast live by Polish Radio Three, the major national radio broadcast company.
Hay cosas inesperadas que te alegran el fin de semana y ésta, aunque se llame “Headache”, es una de ellas. Este disco terminó en mi bandeja de entrada todavía no sé muy bien cómo, pero tampoco importa. De momento, leer que la música de Trupa Trupa es “demasiado extraña para que les guste a los seres humanos” me pareció demasiado para un sábado cualquiera y no me sentía especialmente preparada para sufrir una tortura sónica.
Displacement is a difficult sensation to convey using art most of the times. Feeling dislocated, out of your comfort zone can sometimes just be idiotic. But some more fortunate souls understand the nature of escapism—it’s not an art form, it is a way of getting inside art, seeing it firsthand. Curiously, escaping yourself, feeling displaced and alienized can feel rather therapeutic sometimes.
Blue Tapes have been teaming up with X-Ray Records recently and the results have been pretty spectacular. The latest release is no exception. It comes from Trupa Trupa, who hail from Gdansk in Poland.
Trupa trupa will be getting further mentions in these pages when that is we manage to rescue an email from our bulging in box we received from blue tapes many weeks back.
Saturday, 18 April, is the Headache cassette release date and it’s one of best in 2015 as picked by Tristan Bath of Quietus.
I Trupa Trupa sono un gruppo polacco giunto al terzo album Headache.
Alternative Rock from Gdansk, Poland, Trupa Trupa combine unsettling tones with just enough melody and pop nous to draw the listener right in to the midst of the swirling 90s alt rock atmosphere their new album Headache successfully creates.
It’s appropriately titled, just as was the Big Black EP of the same title. Only where Polish four-piece Trupa Trupa are concerned, it’s more of a slowly nagging throb than one of those splintering, cranium-splitting bastard headaches.
Gdansk, Poland band Trupa Trupa are a mixture of Krautrock, shoegaze, and psychedelia, and their new album is released via Blue Tapes and available on all formats including limited number tapes and frost-clear heavyweight vinyl. Below Philip Neeson gets a wee bit excited.
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Si chiamano Trupa Trupa vengono dalla Polonia e hanno appena pubblicato Headache. Il disco conta undici brani cantati in inglese e musicati sulla scorta di un rock psichedelico che ricorda i Beatles più acidi e i Radiohead più avversi al mainstream.
Trupa Trupa is to perform a gig on 9 May at Off Plus Camera festival.
Wherever you are in the world: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night. It is time for your 5 a day. One day, the UK government said, “You should eat 5 portions of fruit or veg[etables] per day.” Turns out you should probably eat more than that.