Trupa Trupa
★★★★ B Flat A GLITTERBEAT. CD/DL/LP
Gdańsk rockers add fresh pre-punk ingredients to their Baltic bouillabaisse.
The first three tracks of this sinewy sixth album revisit the taut post-hardcore that earned Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s muscular quartet the reductive but appealing soubriquet ‘the Polish Fugazi’. The next five take them into new territory. Lines brings a clear (and all the more welcome for its unexpectedness) echo of mid-period Pink Floyd to the table. Uniforms’ sinister singalong chorus, “I wanna be all my uniforms” also showcases serious stadiumrock potential, while All And All could be one of those