Trupa Trupa’s music is part of Agnieszka Holland’s new film FRANZ.
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Greil Marcus on Trupa Trupa
Trupa Trupa has made it into the legendary Real Life Rock column by Greil Marcus.
Polish art-rock band shares “Sister Ray,” first single from upcoming Mourners project.
Polish art-rock band releases new single, announces U.S. tour, speaks out against fascism.
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
The song Mourners by Trupa Trupa has been included on Rolling Stone’s list of the best songs of 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.