Kulululu is a Tucson-based art punk band, whose music style the group’s spokesperson — referring to himself as “Lu” — said is intended to sound like “grinding your coffee and feel like jumping into a cold body of water.” Through the collection of songs released on their latest album, Lu said the musicians seek to showcase Kulululu’s distinctive outlook on life.

“There are many messages and the musicians regularly work to grapple with what the music means and they’re always considering what it might mean to a listener,” he said. “The band does hope that people will listen — and the ideal trajectory of the music from that point would be for the people who do hear it to think to themselves, ‘I like that,’ and then tell another person who they know about this new music that they heard.”

Kulululu’s latest album, titled “They Want to Know Who We Are,” was released on April 25, accompanied by a free celebration at Che’s Lounge in Tucson. The band was joined by local Tucson egg punkers Alfred and the Breeders, Phoenix punks Okinawa Plane Crash and H2O No! — a noise punk band from Pennsylvania.

“They Want to Know Who We Are” features a collection of five songs — the title track, which shares its name with the album, is first in the song order, Lu said. According to the spokesperson, “They Want to Know Who We Are” is a criticism of modern American society and its obsession with making money.

“The album is about the dismal 21st Century American capitalist landscape and the fiending of profiteers on the information and data of the people,” he said. “It’s about love and absurdity, the deep and necessary desire to sit on a bench and the important questions we ask each other — like, ‘will you eat a sandwich with me,’ in that order.”

Challenging the structures and powers that be, Lu explained, the hope is to get people to slow down and focus more on life’s simple pleasures and experiences — like spending a warm spring day outside and enjoying a sandwich.

The spokesperson noted that the album was recorded by Ren Peter Savage and mixed collaboratively by Savage and Kulululu — with additional tracking completed at Savage’s home studio in downtown Tucson. Additionally, he said the mastering was completed by Jennica Best at Tessatura Studio.

While Kulululu currently operates out of Tucson, Lu noted that it traces its roots to Portland, Oregon. Band members include guitar player “Ku,” as well as three members named Lu — not to be confused with one another or the spokesperson himself — playing drums, bass, guitar, saxophone and trumpet. Ku and some of the Lu’s, the band spokesperson said, sing as well — noting their ability to “unite their voices in harmony.”

Reflecting on the release of their new album and the opportunity they had to celebrate the milestone, Lu said that the band has a message to share.

“We are Kulululu and you are, too,” he said.