Bipolar Explorer

April 15, 2024
 

The band releases a new single today, "The Distant Horizon". Originally commissioned by the UK's great Cities and Memory project, it closes their most recent various artists compilation album, released last month. 
 

Legendary BBC 3 and Soho Radio presenter Max Reinhardt says of the new track:
 

"Masterful and transformative!!! A wonderful piece to wake up to on a spring morning, like throwing open the windows and letting the day in with all its shifting currents of promise, of movement, of mercurial moments of joy and the hum of eternity."

-Max Reinhardt, BBC 3/Soho Radio (London)
 

January 26, 2024

Michael was the guest of Tiberio Faedi on Italy's noted “Silent Radio” program last night. 
 

Over two hours and featuring an in-depth interview and tracks from Dream Together, Deux Anges and In The Hours Left Until Dawn, you can hear the show in its entirety now archived on MixCloud, here and YouTube here. 
 

May 16, 2023
 

Huge thanks to the UK's great Fog Songs for the incredibly kind words about our new album, our 11th, In The Hours Left Until Dawn. 
 
Excerpt follows, full review at link here ...
 
"This is an album of nocturnal dreamscapes, filled with restless shadows and dim pulsating lights to guide you on your way. Embarking on this long, winding, hallucinatory sound journey is like entering a dark labyrinth of ghostly atmospheres, psychedelic meanderings and mysterious whispers...
 
Bipolar Explorer are an experimental dream-pop band based in New York City, and this is their latest release - a sprawling 2-hour long double-disc album, which is a bold and ambitious move to make in the year 2023, but this band have done it well.
 
'In The Hours Left Until Dawn' is a haunting and immersive listening experience. Musically, it's an eclectic and psychedelic hotpot of moody shoegaze, laid-back alt-grunge, dirty post-rock and experimental sound art. The band use effects-laden guitars, moody basslines, spoken word poetry, ambient synths, airy drones, abstract field recordings, swirling vocalizations, percussive instruments and trippy audio manipulation techniques to create these gorgeous shimmering soundscapes that both haunt and comfort...
 
'In The Hours Left Until Dawn' is an album of pure atmosphere and feeling. It's an epic accomplishment, and a gorgeous work of art that contains pop sensibilities, trippy experimentations and everything in between. Ideal introspective listening for the long quiet hours of the night. Highly recommended…"

-Fog Songs (UK)
 

May 11, 2023
 

Michael was a guest on the legendary Max Reinhardt's “Late Lunch Show” live on London's Soho Radio yesterday and the show can now be heard again in its entirety on the station's MixCloud, here. 
 

Michael's segment with Max begins at the top of the show's second hour. 
 

They chat about Bipolar Explorer's new album, their 11th, In The Hours Left Until Dawn, the group's musical history and influences, playing tracks from the new album and more. And in a tweet just before air to introduce the segment, Max called the band “holy sonic icons”. That's going to be hard to top…
 

April 25, 2023

Michael recently sat down with “Fringes of Sound” editor Lars Haur for an in-depth interview about the band's 11th album, the writing process, the group's history, future plans and more. Watch here.  
 

March 25, 2023 

KFJC's great Carson Street has published these kind words about the band's upcoming 11th album, In The Hours Left Until Dawn, on the station's website this morning: 

"In The Hours Left Until Dawn is moody, atmospheric and filled with the calm vibrations we all need now. The music bed underlies explorations of darkness and light, all the while leaving us "a breadcrumb trail of stars" to light our way. My favorite new album of 2023."  -Carson Street, KFJC (California)
 

(note: “a breadcrumb trail of stars” is a lyric from the new album's disc one closer “Echoes Through the Concourse”.) 
 

March 19, 2023 
 

The band's upcoming 11th album has been cited by the UK's great experimental and instrumental music zine, A Closer Listen, in their 2023 Spring Music Preview. 
 

Calling the double-album “one of the Spring's most ambitious (releases)", they go on to describe In The Hours Left Until Dawn as “a sprawling suite that contains instrumentals, sung and spoken word” and of the album's themes, that  “loss permeates the music, gracing it with a tragic mystery.” 

-A Closer Listen (UK)
 

March 13, 2023 
The band are enormously grateful and honored to have been featured again on the legendary Irene Trudel's show on WFMU today. Irene played both “Far Away From Fate” and “Across the Water, part 1” from the group's upcoming 11th album, In The Hours Left Until Dawn, in the first hour of her show, having this to say of the new record:
 

"An amazing album. Two discs of wonderful, gorgeous, drifty music and strange, strange sounds. I love it! It's just a beautiful work!" - Irene Trudel (WFMU)
 

February 2, 2023
The band's upcoming album, their 11th - In The Hours Left Until Dawn - releases on April 7th and already has begun garnering attention. 
 

Italy's White Light/White Heat has named it to their "Picks of the Week". Full article here. 
 

June 19, 2022

The band are hugely grateful to the UK's "Fog Songs" for their incredibly kind review of the group's most recent album, their 10th, Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams, today. Excerpt below and full review here.
 

“It's time to close your eyes, open your heart and allow yourself to indulge in this gorgeous swirl of spellbinding psychedelic ambience. Mesmerizing voices and atmospheric guitars emerging from the depths of misty forests and the heights of darkened mountaintops amidst the pulsing of ominous drones, nature recordings and hypnotic swells of both organic and synthesized noise. As the title of the album suggests - this is the sonic interweaving of nature, human emotion and the metaphysical. A glorious head trip of post-rock psychedelia, hallucinatory English/French poetry, dreamy ambience and deeply immersive noisy soundscapes…"

-Fog Songs (UK)