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.
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.
Of The Sun pośród najlepszych właśnie wydanych albumów wg radia NPR w cyklu New Music Friday! „The band Trupa Trupa has an album out now called Of The Sun. And it is a great one!” stwierdza Robin Hilton.
Of The Sun is out!
Gdansk band Trupa Trupa continue to push the envelope on Of the Sun.
Trupa Trupa Convert Historical Trauma into Post-Punk Catharsis on Of The Sun.
Trupa Trupa’s Of The Sun takes apparently simple songs and brutally smashes them up.
Poland’s Trupa Trupa Share Striking ‚Another Day’ Video.
A self-described poet, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is careful with his words. This care oozes through every second of Trupa Trupa’s music. Unwaveringly fair and thoughtful, Trupa Trupa dodge the brattiness can dog modern punk and post-punk.
The second Glitterbeat release to feature in my roundup up this month, the counterbalanced Polish band Trupa Trupa couldn’t be further apart, sound wise, from the more languid looseness dub of their label mates Baba ZuLa.
Trupa Trupa beams are gonna blind me. Well, if the beams in question are coming Of The Sun I suppose you’d expect nothing less.
I polacchi Trupa Trupa sono bravi musicisti ma anche ottimi manager di sé stessi perché, partendo da Danzica, sono arrivati ad una delle più intriganti label in circolazione quale la Glitterbeat dopo quattro album, i primi due dei quali autoprodotti.
Polonais déjà crédibles à l’occasion de leurs précédents albums (Headache puis Jolly new songs), dans une veine indé bien tenue, Trupa Trupa nous fait le bonheur d’un nouvel essai, qu’il appellera Of the sun.
See you!
Trupa Trupa (“a corpse’s troupe”) hail from Gdansk in Poland, historically part of the powerful Hanseatic League and birthplace of that philosopher of pessimism Arthur Schopenhauer, iconic actor Klaus Kinsky and the calamitous Solidarnosc.
The Polish singer and poet on the dark themes he feels his band’s new LP Of The Sun is laden with.
However, Sunday truly starts with Trupa Trupa. There has been a lot of talk of this fast-growing Polish band hotly tripped to spread across to the West after impressing at SXSW plus Primavera, and with the imminent release of their new album Of the Sun, plus a newly announced world tour, I was eager to check them out for myself.
I am loving the music of Trupa Trupa out of Poland.
In a festival landscape where many line-ups are similar to one another, OFF is a bit of a maverick and is somewhere you’re guaranteed to see things you won’t see that easily elsewhere. With this in mind, its close following of the best emerging, and strong relationship with established Polish acts, makes discovery of great Polish music one of its strongest features.
The music made by Polish post-punks Trupa Trupa finds a haunting balance between intensity and off-beat melodies, even as the group’s lyrics juxtapose the absurd with the harrowing. Their next album, Of the Sun, is due out next month on Lovitt Records, and they’ll be touring the US in October — including a stop at Union Pool on October 8. I talked with singer-guitarist Grzegorz Kwiatkowski about the group’s music, his poetry, and the place where they all converge.