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<p>The new Bipolar Explorer record, <em><strong>Angels</strong></em>, is now live on <a href="https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/angels" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Bandcamp</a>. There are links to purchase as an mp3 album, pre-order the Limited Edition CD, pix, full lyrics and HD audio streaming the album in its entirety.</p>
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<p>For the third week out of four, Bipolar Explorer was back on the great Irene Trudel's Tuesday night show on WFMU. We adore the station and Ms. T in particular, we've been huge fans for years, so it's quite an honor. Irene opened her third set with "You Are" - the very first track of our new album <em><strong>Angels</strong></em><strong>. </strong>You can listen <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/58864" target="_blank" data-imported="1">here</a>. Thank you, Ms. T!</p>
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<p>The Great Irene Trudel opened the third set of her show on WFMU with "You Are" - the lead track from the new record, <em><strong>Angels</strong></em> - on Tuesday night. You can hear the archive right <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/58864" target="_blank" data-imported="1">here.</a></p>
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<p>The new Bipolar Explorer record, <em><strong>Angels</strong></em>, is out today and avail from <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/angels/id954781232" target="_blank" data-imported="1">iTunes </a>and <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bipolarexplorer5" target="_blank" data-imported="1">CD Baby</a>!</p>
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<p>Link to the archive of the great Irene Trudel's show on WFMU. We were so delighted and honored (and a little bit giddy, to be honest) to hear her play "It's Christmas, Sweetheart" - the opening track of our new holiday album, "BPXmas" - in her very first set last night. The entire show, as ever, is a must-listen. Thank you, Irene!</p>
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<p>Holy cow! Irene Trudel played our opening track <em>It's Christmas,  Sweetheart</em> in her first set between The Byrds and Big Star! Should be  up on the WFMU archive later tonight. Thank you, Ms T! Hey, sweetheart,  you're on the radio... xM</p>
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<p>The great Irene Trudel is going to play one of the tracks from our new Christmas record, <em><strong>BPXmas</strong>, </em>on  her show on WFMU (91.1 FM in Greater NYC, streaming worldwide wfmu.org)  tonight. In the immortal words of Timothy Leary, drop out, tune in...<strong></strong></p>
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<p>Wonderful review of <em>BPXmas</em> and feature on Michael and the band in <em>Ground Control Magazine</em> by Daryl Darko Barnett. Excerpt followed by link to full article:</p>
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<p>"New York’s minimalist indie rockers Bipolar Explorer are poised to release two new EPs this month: <em>Angels</em>, the follow-up to their celebrated double-record <em>Of Love and Loss</em> (Slugg Records) as well as a Christmas EP entitled <em>BPXmas</em> (out now digitally and as a CD on December 17). Indeed, I have it on as I write this. I’m not entirely certain what I expected but it’s kind of brilliant. And voluntarily having selected “repeat all,” I have to say it’s getting under my skin.</p>
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<p>Christmas music. It’s a dodgy prospect. I’m not sure I can take another holiday season hearing Sir Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” as I stamp about Trader Joe’s looking for some decent French Roast. But I wouldn’t mind at all coming across BPX’s moody “Emmanuel”, haunting “In The Bleak Midwinter” or their downright raucous “The First Noel” (yeah, they went there…) in any grocery aisle. There’s even a kind of joy in their ghostly half-German, half-English cover of “Silent Night.” It may be more Joy Division than Joy to the World, but that might actually be a good thing.</p>
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<p><em>BPXmas</em> (a mash-up play on words of the band’s acronym, BPX, and that of Christmas itself) is comprised of those four traditional carols - in new arrangements ranging from moody shoegaze to jangly dreampop with a sturdy bit of the ruins of CBGB’s undergirding the lot – plus one new original composition, “It’s Christmas, Sweetheart,” penned by frontman, lead guitarist and singer, Michael Serafin-Wells.</p>
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<p>Inevitably, The Ghosts of Christmases Past attend and inform the proceedings – like every Bipolar Explorer record, this one is dedicated to the memory of their fallen bandmate, Michael’s late-girlfriend and partner, Summer Serafin, who died in a tragic accident in 2011 at the age of 31. But somehow that very gravitas only adds to the shimmer of this collection of tracks – it anchors them, still finding the very holiday-appropriate voicing of gratitude for ever having found “a life of love, so better led”, as Serafin-Wells sings to her on “It’s Christmas, Sweetheart,” the EP’s opening track.</p>
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<p>Interest piqued, I caught up with Michael via Skype from the band’s studio in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen…”</p>
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<p><em><strong>BPXmas</strong></em> is up on iTunes. Here's the link: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bpxmas-ep/id947136498" data-imported="1">https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bpxmas-ep/id947136498</a></p>
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