The band were honored and delighted to provide a guest mix for the great Bleek Swinney for his weekly show on Seattle's KHUH, last night. The program is now available for on demand on Mix Cloud, here.
Hear the band's guest set in the first hour of the show and then stayed tuned for two more hours of this excellent program.
Thank you, Bleek!
The band is hugely grateful to Lars Haur and Fringes of Sound for the incredibly kind words their new album, their 13th, Last Lights. Excerpt below, full article here.
"With their latest album, Bipolar Explorer solidifies their place as veritable masters of the introspective and shoegaze-y. Sylvia Solanas’s deep and whisper-y vocals bring a sense of the concrete to the otherwise ethereal textures brought forth by both her and multi-instrumentalist Michael Serafin-Wells. Even with what we have come to expect from the band, there are still some surprising moments in which the shoegaze vibes fade and we are thrust into a more abstract and ghostly plane, like on “Secret Angels Beneath the West Side Highway Overpass” which feels much like walking through an abandoned corridor of similar aesthetics. The persistent squeak of what sounds like an errant footstep on a hard floor and a general aura of environmental noise without form makes for something haunting and simultaneously peaceful.
But for every strange dark and daunting moment on the album, there are those beautiful and washed out guitar and vocal driven tracks such as “Turnabout,” a surreal and joyously hypnotic track about turning toward the one you love even when the world around you seems to be crumbling and suffering. There are similar themes throughout the rest of the album, most obviously in the lyrics of those tracks that have them. “The Ides of March” touches on a similar themes though it morphs from the perspective of someone being there to someone who is gone forever. There’s a contention throughout these tracks that pokes gently at the idea of finding solace in other people while feeling a wariness and even some kind of weariness about such reliance.
All of this plays out over the course of an incredible twenty-six tracks, making for a rather epic nearly two hour experience. It takes the listener through crowded halls, desolate in-between spaces, and intimate moments of both happiness and sorrow. Coming out with a double-CD of material is impressive as it is, but Last Lights makes it seem effortless and natural, bringing us a spanning and fuzzy picture of what we consider the most difficult thing for any of us to feel - a sense of belonging."
-Lars Haur, Fringes of Sound
The band are honored and delighted to learn that deejay extraordinaire, Brian Damage, and California's great KFJC will air an extended preview of their upcoming 13th album, Last Lights, in a special two hour broadcast today, Tuesday, May 5th. Tune in: 3pm Europe/2pm UK/9am US Eastern/6am US Pacific.
The band will release its 13th album, another double-album - Last Lights - on the day of the Summer Solstice (June 21st). More news soon…
The band were hugely honored to be back on the air with the legendary Max Reinhardt ( the founder of BBC 3's “Late Junction” and a huge champion of Bipolar Explorer, having Michael on for multiple interviews on his Soho Radio “Late Late Lunch” show). Michael and Max played tracks, discussed current affairs, the upcoming BPX album (with an exclusive preview) and more. Listen to the now archived broadcast here. Thank you so much, Max!
The band were honored and delighted to have been featured on Seattle's KHUH this Saturday during the annual special 24 hour broadcast observing “Art's Birthday” (a celebration in memory of Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on 17 January 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years before).
The group shared an hour with Spanish composer and sound artist, Ishak Benevides. Listen again on MixCloud here.
The BPX set begins near the 22 minute mark and includes four tracks - “eleven:eleven”, “The Storm Passes”, “In Between Hours” and “The Dark Outside, The Light Within” - from their 2021 album, Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams.
Today we observe the 46th birthday of BPX co-founder, Summer Serafin.
This morning, the band released a new video in her honor - for “Hold My Soul” from their 12th album, Memories of the Sky. Find it below and also on the band's YouTube channel.
Happy Birthday, Summer!
The band has begun working with a new artist friendly service - Ampwall.
Currently, the band's 11th and 12th albums (In The Hours Left Until Dawn and Memories of the Sky, respectively) and their most recent single (Dreams of the Bell Tower Watchman) are all available on the site - as well as the brand new BPX black on black t-shirts!
Eventually the group intends for its entire catalog to go up on the site, as well. Have a look at the Bipolar Explorer Ampwall page here.
