Coming to the capital after the worst storm in 30 years, Trupa Trupa appeared to take the challenges of being on tour in the midst of such meteorological mayhem in their stride. “So good to be in London after two years of hell,” said Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, the singer of the band, from Gdansk in Poland, which took elements of progressive rock, punk and the avant-garde and infused them with a sense of humour.
Category: reviews
16 March 2022
B FLAT A review – Pitchfork
In his life and art, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has devoted himself to anti-fascism, which, in his native Poland, has become something of a full-time job. As a descendent of a concentration-camp survivor, he’s channeled themes of intergenerational trauma and the banality of evil into celebrated works of poetry that have led to guest-lecturer gigs at universities around the world.
15 February 2022
B FLAT A review – KEXP
This Polish band’s sixth album is a well-crafted set of ominous rock ranging from driving, tension-filled post-punk to atmospheric psych-rock, with often-dark lyrics for these troubled times.
3 February 2022
B FLAT A review – The Quietus
Imagine the Beatles and Velvet Underground reading Hannah Arendt while in the studio with film director Michael Haneke. That’s Trupa Trupa in a nutshell, a Gdańsk-based band who spent the last decade perfecting their balancing act between lyrical songs and crushing psychedelia.
3 February 2022
Henry Rollins / B FLAT A
“The new Trupa Trupa album B Flat A is really good.” – Henry Rollins
21 January 2022
Review of “Crops” – Paul Levinson
I don’t often review poetry on this blog. The last — and, in fact, the only — time I did was Andrew McLuhan’s Written Matter last February. But, once again, words without music, or with music entirely in the head, call.
17 January 2022
Rolling Stone
Trupa Trupa’s Dream of Peace. Polish rock band’s new single “Uniforms” is a clarion call for humanism in a hateful world.
30 November 2021
BBC
Our new single, “Twitch”, is all over BBC Radio 6 Music! Thank you Lauren Lavern, Iggy Pop, Steve Lamacq and Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.
24 November 2021
Crops – Words Without Borders
The first review of “Crops” in “Words Without Borders” by Tobias Carroll:
“How do you address a legacy of genocide through art? Crops has a daunting task before it, and what makes these works particularly impressive is the way that Kwiatkowski’s stark use of language offers a sense of absence throughout the book. This is haunting work in more ways than one.”
5 November 2021
Clash magazine
Trupa Trupa Return With Mighty ‘Twitch’. Watch the hallucinogenic visuals…