Best albums of 2022 / Stuart Berman, Pitchfork
Here’s the top 25 of ’22 by Stuart Berman from Pitchfork (in alphabetical order).
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Best albums of 2022 / BBC Radio 6
“Uniforms” single, and BBC session, are on Mark Riley’s “The Best Of The Year” BBC Radio 6 music show.
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Best albums of 2022 / WXPN
B FLAT A album is on this great end of the year WXPN summary.
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Best albums of 2022 / Sound Opinions
B FLAT A is one of the best album of 2022 according to Greg Kot of Sound Opinions.
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Best albums of 2022 / Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone
Such a great end of the year list created by Simon Vozick-Levinson, deputy music editor at Rolling Stone. And B FLAT A is at number 19.
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Stereogum / B FLAT A
Trupa Trupa hail from Poland, where for over a decade they’ve been using serrated post-punk to draw connections between their country’s fascist past and the present day.
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Die Welt
Die polnische Band Trupa Trupa kommt auf Deutschland-Tour und verströmt in ihrer Musik eine rastlose Energie, die an das kompromisslose Punk-Ethos von Fugazi erinnert. Ein Gespräch mit dem Sänger Grzegorz Kwiatkowski über seine Gedichte, seine Musik und den Pessimismus in der Welt.
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Henry Rollins / KCRW / B FLAT A
Love from Henry Rollins!
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Minneapolis gig review – Twin Cities Media
If you’re looking for somebody to adequately explain to you what Trupa Trupa does, I’m not that person. All I can do is try to provide some impressions because I really don’t have anything to compare it with. It’s bits and pieces.
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Sound Opinions
As a kid growing up in a huge extended family of Polish post-World War II ex-pats and their offspring in Chicago and beyond, I didn’t have to travel to Warsaw to get a deep education in the country’s culture and music.
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B FLAT A review – Uncut
Philosopher-poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s lyrics deal with fundamental questions of fighting evil, in a homeland that has experienced more than its share.
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Anthony Fantano / Uniforms / B FLAT A
This is pretty neat.
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BBC Radio 6 Music live session
Big news! We are playing BBC Radio 6 Music live session! Tune in and listen to our concert on 11th of April at 7PM UK time on Marc Riley show!
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New Music Friday / NPR
“This is just a gloriously noisy gritty rock band from Poland, Bob Boilen and I love very dearly. They have a new record out today called B FLAT A.”
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B FLAT A review – MOJO
Gdansk rockers add fresh pre-punk ingredients to their Baltic bouillabaisse.
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B FLAT A review – The Times
From the underground music scene of Gdansk, Poland, come this excellent four-piece whose unlikely combination of driving rhythms, sweet atmospheric moments and surreal sense of humour add up to a post-punk Pink Floyd, with awkwardness and dreaminess in equal measure.
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A four star London gig review in The Times and The Sunday Times
Coming to the capital after the worst storm in 30 years, Trupa Trupa appeared to take the challenges of being on tour in the midst of such meteorological mayhem in their stride.
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B FLAT A review – Pitchfork
In his life and art, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has devoted himself to anti-fascism, which, in his native Poland, has become something of a full-time job.
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B FLAT A review – KEXP
This Polish band’s sixth album is a well-crafted set of ominous rock ranging from driving, tension-filled post-punk to atmospheric psych-rock, with often-dark lyrics for these troubled times.
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B FLAT A review – The Quietus
Imagine the Beatles and Velvet Underground reading Hannah Arendt while in the studio with film director Michael Haneke. That’s Trupa Trupa in a nutshell, a Gdańsk-based band who spent the last decade perfecting their balancing act between lyrical songs and crushing psychedelia.