James Thornhill
I’ve seen Trupa Trupa twice this year, once a month! And both times their incredible songs have taken on a slightly different life.
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Of The Sun review – Fördeflüsterer
Da wächst langsam etwas Großes zusammen, diese Feststellung hatte ich zu „Headache“ geschrieben. Das war 2015, und es handelte sich dabei um das dritte Album der Band Trupa Trupa. Zwei Jahre später erschien „Jolly New Songs“, und das war schon ein toller kompakter Brocken, aber auch ein wenig undurchsichtig, dabei sehr reizvoll und auch schon großartig.
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End Of The Line review – Medium.com
In this week of love and sickness, of course, some new music needs to emphasize the ‘sickness’-part of that equation.
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I’ll find – Tabs out
It’s been a joy covering Trupa Trupa over the past couple of years, and I was absolutely delighted to see the band from Gdańsk, Poland, popping up here on Whited Sepulchre’s split series. Their brand of psychedelic post-punk with intensely political undertones (frontdude Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is a fascinating poet and researcher, digging into some World War II–related topics on CBC radio documentary “The Invisible Shoes of Stutthof Concentration Camp”) is easy to return to again and again, and their new record “Of the Sun” on Lovitt is a stunner.
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End Of The Line
Singiel End Of The Line zapowiada płytę EP I”ll find, która ukaże się 6 marca nakładem Glitterbeat Records (Europa), Lovitt Records (USA), Moorworks (Japonia) i Anteny Krzyku (Polska).
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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.”