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NPR / WORLD CAFE

For Polish band Trupa Trupa, remembering our history is paramount. You may have noticed the term “unprecedented times” has become a very common way to describe life over the last few years. In some ways, that’s true, but just because these exact circumstances may feel new 0r shocking, often there is precedence.

New York Times

For over a decade, the Polish band Trupa Trupa has been unleashing idiosyncratic blasts of psychedelic rock with a sharp post-punk edge, using music as a form of catharsis as well as activism. The group — Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and Wojtek Juchniewicz on vocals and guitar, plus Tomek Pawluczuk on drums — is now gearing up for the release of their new EP, “Mourners,” along with a performance at New York’s Heaven can wait on March 1.

Chicago Reader

Poland’s Trupa Trupa confront humankind’s atrocities to fight for something better. Trupa Trupa make rickety, bleak music for surviving authoritarianism. Since self-releasing their full-length debut, 2011’s LP, the trio from the coast of northern Poland have wandered through the foggiest and most aching parts of psych and garage rock, postpunk, and posthardcore to create a sound whose greatest consistency is its ability to express the darkest aspects of the human experience—and the beauty we must nurture despite it all.

Chicago Tribune

In 2018, Trupa Trupa was 15 minutes from taking the stage at the venerable South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, when singer and guitarist Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s amp burned out.

Rolling Stone

Piosenka “Mourners” Trupa Trupa znalazła się na liście najlepszych piosenek 2025 roku magazynu Rolling Stone!

Sound Opinions

Album Trupa Trupa “Mourners” znalazł się na podium w rankingu najlepszych płyt roku krytyka Grega Kota i programu Sound Opinions.

Recenzja Ohne Orchester – Literatur und Kritik

Als der polnische Dichter Grzegorz Kwiatkowski noch ein Kind ist, macht sein Großvater mit ihm einen Ausflug. Es ist kein Ausflug, an dessen Ende beide freudig an einem Eis schlecken, einen Drachen steigen lassen oder mit erwärmten Herzen ein Zirkuszelt wieder verlassen. Es ist ein Ausflug in die Vergangenheit, an dessen Ende für Grzegorz Kwiatkowski sich die Frage, warum Menschen einander hassen und umbringen, wie ein Ungeheuer über das Himmelszelt spannt.