Louder Than War – End Of The Line – single/video review
Poland’s Trupa Trupa keep up the momentum with today’s release of End Of The Line, the first single off the new EP I’ll Find.
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MENT / The Quietus
Trupa Trupa are a very moreish rock band boasting undoubted skill and killer songs, who trade in a mix of Weimar cabaret, brutal math rock and frazzled psychedelia.
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CBC
Radio CBC published the “The invisible shoes of Stutthof concentration camp” story including the songs from “Headache” and “Jolly New Songs”. More information at www.cbc.ca
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Trupa Trupa featured in Deutschlandfunk Kultur!
Der Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs vor 80 Jahren und das KZ Stutthof: Für die polnische Band Trupa Trupa aus Danzig spielt die Geschichte eine große Rolle – auch in ihrem neuen Album „Of the Sun“. Darin geht es auch um den aktuellen Umgang mit der Vergangenheit.
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Trupa Trupa / Algiers
Trupa Trupa otworzy dwa niemieckie koncerty zespołu Algiers!
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Iggy Pop
„A clever and strong group Trupa Trupa!” says Iggy Pop at BBC Radio 6 music.
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Under The Radar Magazine / Festival MENT
Words fail to describe Poland’s Trupa Trupa, just ask anyone who has witnessed them live!
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The Morning Star
„It’s been a year of pleasant and rewarding surprises, with Polish outfit Trupa Trupa’s Of The Sun (Glitterbeats Records) being perhaps the most unexpected revelation. Frontman and poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has described their music as “a meditative, pessimistic thing,” adding that Don Quixote is an inspiration. Brimming with sophisticated exploratory rock arrangements, delivered with superb […]
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Ben Thompson / Resonance FM
“I know what you wanna hear now. Are you ready for music from the Polish Fugazi? It’s a handy formulation for a very seriously guitar rock with a sort of undertow of memory.
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Times of Israel
Trupa Trupa vocalist and songwriter Grzegorz Kwiatkowski — shaped by his ancestors’ imprisonment at Stutthof concentration camp — speaks truth to power through punk poetry.
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Steve Lamacq / 6 Music Recommends
„It takes you somewhere without really going anywhere.”
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The Southern California News Group
Polish band Trupa Trupa brings post-punk and dark poetry to Desert Daze and beyond.
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Le Monde Juif
Un groupe post-punk polonais dénonce populisme, haine et négation de la Shoah.
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Zman
להקת הפוסט-פאנק הפולנית טרופה-טרופה זוכה להצלחה בינלאומית מפתיעה עם שירים על השואה ועל פוליטיקה ● בראיון נוקב, מסביר אחד מחבריה את משיכתו לנושא – ומביע תקווה כי הגל הפופוליסטי באירופה יחלוף במהרה ● „פעם חשבתי שהרוע נשאר בעבר, אבל עכשיו הוא חוזר”
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Jewish Chronicle
“Holocaust denial and antisemitism is rising around the world but, of course, in Poland too. The nature of evil is that it’s immortal… I hope things will get better, but that is why we have to protest.”
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Metro
Trupa Trupa have not been making friends in their native Poland. They come from Gdańsk, that precariously placed city over which history has so often rolled like a tank. Their big theme is collective memory – the way it is distorted, perverted and suppressed for political ends.
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Guardian
The Gdansk quartet rail against rightwing hate speech – and have uncovered a dark secret about their country in the Nazi era.
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Of The Sun – press
Channeling a wary mixture of dread and hope, the Polish indie rockers tighten the slackness of previous records into a potent fusion of post-hardcore and shoegaze.[…] More than just revel in the tension between medium and message, Trupa Trupa are the rare dystopian post-punk band to embrace optimism and levity as necessary survival mechanisms.[…] Trupa Trupa may not have the perfect prescription for a better world, but they welcome you to imagine one together.
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Of The Sun review – The Times
With shades of Sonic Youth, Radiohead and the kind of rainy, overcoat-wearing bands that Manchester was so good at producing in the early Eighties, Trupa Trupa jump from hypnotic trawls (Satellite) to shouty angular stomps (Turn), while bringing some indefinable quality that can come only from their lives.
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NPR / All Songs Considered
„They’re one of these bands that are super super loud and punky, but then, all of a sudden, it’s melodic” – Bob Boilen. Podcast from 42:10 www.npr.org