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
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Henry Rollins / Of The Sun
Henry Rollins considers „Of The Sun” a fantastic album and airs„Dream about” „Anyhow” and „Mangle” in his show at KCRW.
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Of The Sun review – Chicago Tribune
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski of the Polish band Trupa Trupa is a singer of few, well-chosen words. He addresses uncomfortable truths, the absurdity of life, and turns these terse poems into songs that feel like dreams, charged with spasms of noise, gut-punch bass lines and hypnotic melodies.
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Of The Sun review – Mojo
Let’s Gdansk: splendid fifth offering from the Polish art-rock quartet. Super Trupa Trupa: swimming against the tides. Straight out of a Baltic port, this gripping and energetic record packs a serious punch while doing some of its best work very quietly.
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Of The Sun review – Pitchfork
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.
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Bandcamp Daily / Album of the Day: Trupa Trupa, Of The Sun
The reputation of the Gdansk, Poland-based band Trupa Trupa has been growing steadily over the last few years. The group, led by gregarious singer and guitarist Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, has gone from self-releasing albums at the start of the decade to signing to indie label Lovitt in the U.S. (Glitterbeat in the EU) as the ‘10s draw to a close.
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Of The Sun review – Clash Magazine
The Polish quartet reaches new hypnotic heights…
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Interview for Louder Than War
Trupa Trupa are a fascinating band. They are a gregarious bunch, and any time spent with them involves a fair number of drinks and a raft of increasingly absurdist stories and jokes; all in the best Polish tradition. They are also a band that unlock many things in their listeners.
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Of The Sun review – KEXP
This Polish band’s fifth album is a solid set of psych-tinged post-punk with a dark, atmospheric sound featuring ominous guitars, stern rhythms and haunting melodies.