A year after their debut album “Już wiem, co będziemy dzisiaj robić” pulled wracaj, bo ciemno out of the dreamo bracket and into something looser, the Warsaw band are back with three new tracks. This time they’re sharing the release with milion lat przestępnych, the Polish DIY band they’ve played 17 shows with.
The split EP is called “wszystko robimy razem” and it landed May 8th on Close Call Records, run by their longtime friend Michał Czapski. Adi from MLP is on backing vocals across the WBC side. Recorded by Mikołaj Próchniak and Kuba Szczepaniak, mixed and mastered by Szczepaniak, between February and May 2026.
The title is a phrase the two bands actually say to each other. As WBC put it, the friendship vibe is in their heads more than on the record itself, “but it counts.” Unlike the album, no extra guests were brought in for choirs or extras — everything was done in the WBCxMLP lineup. What’s also different from anything they’ve released before: the three songs here lean harder into inspirations from friends on the Polish DIY scene, especially bands they’ve toured with.
The opener, “kaczki na wodzie,” came out of one of those flat moments Maury keeps writing about.
“I still have a problem with just living. When I feel like I’m losing the meaning of it sometimes (I mean, momentary crisis moments), I feel like I’m losing it completely. But luckily, that’s usually not the norm,” he says.
Musically it’s a mix — some post-hardcore, some screamo, some blackgaze, some power pop. And a lot of harsh, noisy emo. “Generally it’s, as is often the case with us, a patchwork of different ideas.” Misia describes the drum part as built from a lot of different elements, with accents on the toms and cymbals that “sound like throwing ducks on water” — and notes that on this split everyone stepped out of their comfort zone. Janek changed his bass tone looking for something new.
She also flags that Maury’s screaming sounds particularly good on this one. For Janek, the EP itself was stretched across so much time that there wasn’t one defined moment of making and recording it; he had time to live with the songs. He likes “kaczki na wodzie” specifically for the outro and for being the heavier one on the split.
“coś na pewno” is the oldest song on the WBC side, written around mid-2024. Maury wrote it almost in one sitting and points to two inspirations: milion lat przestępnych, especially in the relationship between guitar and drums, and Ametyst, both in the lyrics and the music — though that influence is harder to pin down.
“Again we have a bit of grabbing individual thoughts and moments,” he says, “the uncertainty that even if something seems to be falling into place, paranoia suggests that maybe it isn’t. And: observations on how the people around me are aging and telling myself I just have to adopt a different perspective on everything.” He says the split as a whole carries a lot of alienation — “rather neutral and life-like than pessimistic, but still trying to come to terms with the fact that we are alone and have to accept it.” It’s also the first WBC song where MLP appear: Adi sings backing vocals on it. Misia calls it her favourite from the split, with a dynamic she gets goosebumps from. She singles out the last fragment of the lyrics: “very much in our style.”
“feherlofia” is the most reference-loaded track of the three. Maury built it around two riffs he’d had written for ages but couldn’t fit anywhere — the opener and the second-to-last one. There’s a shoutout to friends in the band Przeprosiny, plus nods to Geese, MLP again, Free Throw, and “my beloved Bomb the Music Industry!”
The lyrics are about one specific day. Maury had a problem with ladybugs (or insects that looked like them) flooding his room in mass quantities — he kept throwing them out and they kept coming back.
“It’s obviously about the things that bother us, which get dismissed instead of being addressed, so after some time they come back unmoved.” The closing section came to him while falling asleep: he realised that many moments and memories that used to excite him, stress him, or get him down didn’t trigger any emotional reaction in him anymore. “Sometimes that’s good, but sometimes it’s also good to feel like you’re human.”
It reminded him of the C418 album title “Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures.” When they played the song to Adi from MLP, he immediately said it was their best. Janek agrees: it’s his favourite from the split, lighter and more indie than the other two. He’s particularly into his own bassline on the verse and calls the bridge and outro “one of the cooler things in our catalogue.”
The MLP side carries its own three tracks. The idea for the split came naturally, MLP say: a way to seal the friendship pact between the two bands. After many shared tours and trips, they decided their combined energy needed a release. Working off pre-written fragments, riffs, lyrics and sounds, they brought everything into Kuba Szczepaniak’s studio, where the sessions opened up — extra guitars, choirs, ambient transitions. “It helped us spread our wings a little.” They describe “wszystko robimy razem” as the culmination, but not the end, of their tours, sleepovers, rehearsals and trips together.
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The second track on the MLP side opens with a sample: “(…) i don’t like myself sometimes.” It’s pulled from Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love,” where Adam Sandler plays a man who can’t find his place in society until the love of his life gives him the strength to fight for himself. The band say they think about that film often in the context of finding oneself and how important people in your life can help and motivate you.
The first MLP track, “nie ma czasu na ‘teraz albo nigdy’,” is about how anyone can reach their potential in the right environment. Your life is in your hands, so it’s worth finding the circumstances to grow and discover your purpose. Routine as torment is the emotional erosion a person goes through living without a specific sense.
“scenariusz kaufmana” is about what defines you as a person, as an individual. Internal and external traits intertwine and blur the line between your real “me” and your persona, causing you not to recognise yourself in your own body. Some factors are within your control, some aren’t, but living out of sync with yourself eats you from inside. Hair, the lyrics suggest, is just one element you can express yourself or extinguish yourself with.
“You’re never out of context, just a collection of experiences and the people you meet.” The feeling is one of watching yourself in third person, just as an observer. It’s a recurring theme in MLP’s work, including “chaos i wskrzeszenie,” where the vocalist screams as loud as they can: “jestem zlepkiem” (“I am a patchwork”) — about all of their experiences and how they shape them as a person.
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“plakat z żeber” leans on leaves as a symbol of everyday beauty that should be cultivated. Every memory becomes raw material for art, which causes them to merge with the present. Some experiences are felt so strongly that they can be confused with reality. Between one part of the lyrics and another there’s a long instrumental break where the listener can, as the lyrics put it, “lock themselves inside their own head” — meaning their own past.
When the vocal returns, the desperation comes from not having a real home. The memories get re-lived so intensely that waking up from them brings the urge to return to the world. In retrospection, your legs take you deep inside yourself, where you live out nostalgia so intensely you get lost in it. The feeling of longing for a home — one that gets fled from in thought — is what wakes you up.
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A few details from the recording: most post-production effects on the MLP side came together spontaneously in the studio — triangle, harmonics, vocal edits like echo, all layered onto existing bases. The letters on the cover come from a gift Adi gave to Karo for her birthday with a friend. At a Poznań show with WBC they made friendship bracelets with the two band names on them, though only two got finished because of the limited letters available. Adi and Misia from WBC are the ones wearing them.
The split released May 8th, 2026, on Close Call Records. Cover art by Karolina Stach. Backing vocals: WBC + Adrian Modzelewski.
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