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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 11/10/2026

Huge thanks to Dan and California’s great @kfjc.org for featuring “Guided” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this morning! Thank you!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 11/10/2026

Enormous thanks to Phil and the UK's great music journal @sonicabuse.bsky.social for their incredibly kind, thoughtful and detailed - track by track! - review of our 13th Bipolar Explorer album LAST LIGHTS. Excerpts and link to full below. Thank you so much, guys!!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 20/09/2026

Massive thanks to Dan and California’s great @kfjc.org for featuring “That I Wept to Dream Again” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this morning! Thank you, Dan!!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 19/09/2026

The 100th edition of Bipolar Explorer’s “The Other Room” will air on France’s @campradio.bsky.social this coming Tuesday. Tune in! And you can find our entire archive to listen again over on the @sluggrecords.com site…

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 19/09/2026

Thanks to Jeremiah and @wfmu.bsky.social for featuring “That I Wept to Dream Again” from our new album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this week! Thank you, Jeremiah!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 19/09/2026

Huge thanks to Kat and @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social for closing her show last night with “Four Saints, Part 2” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS. And thank you everyone on the chat board for all your kind words!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 15/09/2026

Big thanks to Mary and California’s great @kfjc.org for featuring “Dreams of the Bell Tower Watchman” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on her show this week. Thank you, Mary!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 14/09/2026

Massive thanks to the legendary @keeptru.bsky.social for featuring “Four Saints, Part 1” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, in her opening set today on @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social ! Thank you, Irene!!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 14/09/2026

Huge thanks to Rainbow Crosser and California’s great @kfjc.org for featuring “The Light Calls to Us” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on this weekend’s show! Thank you!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 13/09/2026

Huge thanks to Dan and @kfjc.org for featuring “Stratiform” from our new album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this morning!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 13/09/2026

Huge thanks to Mitch LeMay and California’s great @kfjc.org for closing his show this weekend with “That I Wept to Dream Again” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS. Thank you!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 11/09/2026

Popping into a magazine shop after lunch in La Rochelle. Did we mention we’re in The fucking Wire?! 💕🙏

Review of Bipolar Explorer’s “Last Lights” leads the Avant Rock section of The Wire Magazine, held open at a newsstand in France.

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 06/09/2026

Huge thanks to Dan and California’s great @kfjc.org for featuring “Slow Motion” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this morning. Thank you!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 05/09/2026

New stickers (with “classic” BPX logo) in stock! Grab one on Bandcamp, @ampwall.com or directly from @sluggrecords.com !

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 03/09/2026

A big thanks to Mary Wing, Rich Hazleton and @richinwashington.bsky.social for the triple play of tracks from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on their shows on @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social this week! Thank you so much, guys!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 03/09/2026

Massive thanks to @briandamageradio.bsky.social and California’s great @kfjc.org for closing his show last night with “That I Wept to Dream Again” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS. Thank you, Brian!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 02/09/2026

…that make the project worth following.” LAST LIGHTS is available both digitally and on 2xCD (with 20 page booklet) shipping from both NYC and France. Finally, as ever, thank you so much for your interest and support- it means the world to us. With thanks, love and faith -S&M&S BPX NYC

"Wonderful! A great new album!"
- Irene Trudel, WFMU (NY/NJ)
*****
"Combining elements of dark ambient, drone, shoegaze, and post-rock, Bipolar Explorer are doing something wonderfully different. Last Lights is one of those remarkable albums (...) you'll be in audio paradise for a long time. Gorgeous!"
Rich Dodgin - This Is Darkness
(Scotland)
*****
"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 (US)
*****
"Ample discord is present in a set that builds itself around Serafin-Wells's multiplicity of guitar textures. Like Windy & Carl at their gothiest - which is very welcome."
-Noel Gardner, The Wire Magazine (UK)
*****
Last Lights

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 31/08/2026

Just learned that our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, is number 17 in the Most Heavily Played Albums charts of California’s great @kfjc.org and as a new entry this week, also the top new add. Thank you so much, guys!!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 30/08/2026

Big thanks to Dan and California’s great @kfjc.org for featuring “Secret Angels Beneath the West Side Highway Overpass” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this morning! Thank you!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 30/08/2026

Huge thanks to Rough Trade Records NYC for their incredibly kind words about our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS. Pick up a copy in person at their Rockefeller Center shop or order online. “The newest offering from Bipolar Explorer, this release continues the project’s distinctive path…

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 29/08/2026

Huge thanks to @brian-currents.bsky.social and @wfmu.bsky.social for closing his show this morning with “A Better Place” from our new album, LAST LIGHTS. Thank you, Brian!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 28/08/2026

Big thanks to Jeremiah and @wfmu.bsky.social for featuring “Stratiform” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on the most recent edition of his show. Thank you, Jeremiah!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 28/08/2026

Ever grateful for the advocacy of the legendary @keeptru.bsky.social of @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social and again this week when we graduated to having “The Storm Passes” from our album FORESTS, VOICES, COASTLINES, DREAMS featured as bed music on her incredible show. Thank you, Irene!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 28/08/2026

Huge thanks to Wathe, Monster Zero and Mitch LeMay for featuring tracks from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on their shows on California’s great @kfjc.org this week! Thank you so much, guys!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 23/08/2026

Huge thanks to Dan and @kfjc.org for featuring “Stratiform”, the opening track on our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this morning! Thank you, Dan!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 23/08/2026

LAST LIGHTS. Available on Bandcamp, @ampwall.com , Apple Music, directly from @sluggrecords.com and elsewhere…

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 23/08/2026

Huge thanks to Carson Street and California’s great @kfjc.org for featuring “The Light Calls to Us” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, our 13th, LAST LIGHTS, on his show today! Thank you, Carson!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 22/08/2026

What does a New Yorker watch before he heads off to France for a month? “Listen, you screw heads…”

DVD cover of the film, “Taxi Driver”- Deniro and Foster pictured, sitting on a shelf with a sign reading “Currently Playing”

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 21/08/2026

Huge thanks to @briandamageradio.bsky.social and California’s great @kfjc.org for closing his show this week with very kind words and “Secret Angels Beneath the West Side Highway Overpass” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS. Thank you, Brian!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 17/08/2026

Our new Bipolar Explorer album, our 13th - LAST LIGHTS - is available digitally and on 2xCD from Bandcamp, @ampwall.com , directly from @sluggrecords.com and elsewhere (Rough Trade NYC has a few copies in stock…)

On a deep blue background, Bipolar Explorer's new album Last Lights cover image ("Nocturne au Parc de Bruxelles", William Degouve de Nuncques, 1897) and a few quotes:

"Wonderful! A great new album!"
-Irene Trudel, WFMU (NY/NJ)

"Combining elements of dark ambient, drone, shoegaze, and post-rock, Bipolar Explorer are doing something wonderfully different. Last Lights is one of those remarkable albums (...) you'll be in audio paradise for a long time. Gorgeous!"
Rich Dodgin - This Is Darkness (Scotland)

"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 (US)

"Ample discord is present in a set that builds itself around Serafin- Wells's multiplicity of guitar textures. Like Windy & Carl at their gothiest - which is very welcome."
-Noel Gardner, The Wire Magazine (UK)

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 17/08/2026

Huge thanks to Dan and California’s great @kfjc.org for featuring “Turnabout” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this morning! Thank you, Dan!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 13/08/2026

Our new Bipolar Explorer album, our 13th - LAST LIGHTS - as seen in @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is avail both DL and on 2xCD (w/20 pages booklet) on Bandcamp, @ampwall.com directly from @sluggrecords.com and elsewhere.

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 06/08/2026

Relieved that this sorely overlooked little group (from London, I think?) is finally getting some attention …

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 02/08/2026

Huge thanks to Dan and @kfjc.org for featuring “Across the Northern Winter Sky” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS. Thank you!!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 01/08/2026

Huge thanks to @richinwashington.bsky.social and @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social for featuring “Across the Northern Winter Sky” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show this week! Hear the show in its entirety at the link below. Thank you, Rich!!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 01/08/2026

Huge thanks to Rich Dodgin and Scotland's This Is Darkness for their very kind words about our new Bipolar Explorer album, our 13th, LAST LIGHTS. Excerpt and link to full article below. Thank you, Rich! "Last Lights is one of those remarkable albums that is almost impossible to describe...

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 30/07/2026

We got word last night that California’s great @kfjc.org have added our new Bipolar Explorer album, our 13th, LAST LIGHTS, to the station’s “A” library. Huge thanks to everyone at 89.7! Already tracks have aired on the overnight and this morning - thank you so much, guys!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 13/07/2026

Huge thanks to the legendary @keeptru.bsky.social for featuring “Foreign Film” from our new Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on her show on @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social today! Thank you, Irene!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 04/07/2026

Huge thanks to the great @bleek.bsky.social - as we have word that he is including "Turnabout", the disc one closer of our new Bipolar Explorer double-album, LAST LIGHTS, on his show on Seattle's @khuh.bsky.social tonight! Tune in! Thank you, Bleek!

Cover of Bipolar Explorer's LAST LIGHTS album: the painting "Nocturne au Parc Royal de Bruxelles" (1897) by William Degouve de Nuncques - the blues and greens of trees, sky and walking paths of a park lit up just after dusk.

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 24/06/2026

Huge thanks to Tamar and @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social for featuring “The Light Calls to Us” from our brand new Bipolar Explorer album, our 13th, LAST LIGHTS, on her show today! Thank you, Tamar!!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 15/06/2026

Massive thanks to the legendary @keeptru.bsky.social for featuring “That I Wept to Dream Again” from our upcoming 13th Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on her show on @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social today! Thank you, Irene!!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 15/06/2026

Huge thanks to Wendy and @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social for featuring “Stratiform” - the opener from our upcoming 13th Bipolar Explorer album on her show this morning! Thank you, Wendy!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 09/06/2026

Huge thanks to the great @keeptru.bsky.social for featuring “Halcyon Days” from our upcoming 13th Bipolar Explorer album, LAST LIGHTS, on her show on @wfmu.bsky.social @gtdradio.bsky.social yesterday! Thank you, Irene!

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Michael Serafin-Wells @bipolarexplorer.info · 07/06/2026

The re-emergence of the late Pete Maravich as a "reporter" for the NYT has been fraught for some basketball fans. "Why now?"

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