10 August 2025
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As the Polish Presidency of the EU Council comes to an end, we speak to Grzegorz Kwiatkowski from the band Trupa Trupa about the grand political landscape, intimate private discoveries, and touring the USA during seismic changes.
7 August 2025
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.
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has become a visiting writer at the American Alan Cheuse International Writers Center and George Mason University.
28 July 2025
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.
28 July 2025
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.
24 July 2025
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.
18 July 2025
Rolling Stone
The song Mourners by Trupa Trupa has been included on Rolling Stone’s list of the best songs of 2025!
17 July 2025
Sound Opinions
The album Mourners by Trupa Trupa made it to the podium in music critic Greg Kot’s and the Sound Opinions show’s ranking of the best albums of the year.
15 July 2025
Review of 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.