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Slugg Records @sluggrecords.com · 07/04/2024

“In The Hours”: reviews by Max Reinhardt (Soho Radio London/BBC3), Fog Songs (UK), Irene Trudel (WFMU, NYC-NJ), Carson Street (KFJC, California), A Closer Listen (UK), black_ops (UK), Un Certain Reverie (Portland, OR), Jeffrey Davison (CKUT, Montreal), Conducive (UK), White Light/White Heat (Italy)

REVIEWS:
"The new album I think somehow breaks new ground for holy sonic icons, Bipolar Explorer, because it feels and sounds like a whole, an unstoppable beating heart that's emanating fragile sonics and thoughts and words at the fringes of consciousness and subconsciousness, sleep and waking, dream and vision."
-Max Reinhardt, Soho Radio/BBC 3 (London)
"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 e

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)
"An amazing album. Another new, beautiful soundscape from Bipolar Explorer! Two discs of wonderful, gorgeous, drifty music and strange, strange sounds. Utter dream sequences. I love it!
It's just a beautiful work!"
- Irene Trudel, WFMU (New York)
"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.

"A sprawling suite of instrumentals, sung and spoken word. Loss permeates the music, gracing it with a tragic mystery."
- A Closer Listen (UK)
"A hallucinatory masterpiece. Grab this album."
- Black_Ops Radio (London)
"Beautiful, shimmering, hypnotic, dreamlike; always a sense of passage through unnameable dimensions; the haunt is palpable but as an enveloping wonder and at times I felt I was listening to stained glass..."
- Uncertain Reverie (Portland, OR)
"Just a gorgeous, gorgeous album. A lot of their music has a really strong spiritual undercurrent and maybe never more evident than on this new record, which is actually a 2-CD set."
- Jeffrey Davison, CKUT (Montreal)
"A dark, delightful sound journey, simultaneously haunting and comforting."
-Conducive (UK)
"Pick of the Week!"
- White Light/White Heat (Italy)

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