Of the Sun

Poland's hotly-tipped experimental rock ensemble delivers a potent, galvanizing fifth album. Almost every song on Of The Sun -the magnetic fifth album from the Polish quartetTrupa Trupa -lands like an anthem, with barbed hooks driven by an italicized rhythm section and a chimera of crisscrossing harmonies. Throughout itspropulsive 12-song sequence, this is an album that never lets up. From the relentlessly pulsing "Long Time Ago" to the deep glisten of "Longing," Of The Sun is an unbroken string of hits in Trupa Trupa's idiosyncratic, self-made universe. But just beneaththe surface of these often bright and always indelible songs, there is a world teeming with nihilistic considerations, slyly dark humor, and survivalist self-assurances -all subtly nestled into bold refrains and reflected back via complex, secret textures. Complex emotions ripple through Of The Sun, a radiant album about the damnation of mortality.