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NYC independent home label - Bipolar Explorer and Tremosphere. By @bipolarexplorer.info and @sylviasolanas.com @tremosphere.com Bipolar Explorer - Last Lights (2026) 💿 Tremosphere - saturated solace (2025) 💿

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Slugg Records@sluggrecords· 8h

"Last Lights" @bipolarexplorer.info 13th album, double CD w/booklet of liner notes, lyrics, spoken word, art sluggrecords.com ampwall.com/a/bipolarexp... bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/last-l... also available on iTunes & all (not Spotify) A few CDs in stock at Rough Trade Midtown Manhattan

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)

Last Lights
2x CD and digital

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· 7d

So proud of @bipolarexplorer.info Support independent media and artists, it's worth it! Get Last Lights on double CD/digital bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/last-l... ampwall.com/a/bipolarexp... Get The Wire September 2026 (& subscribe) www.thewire.co.uk/issues/511 @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

Bipolar Explorer

Last Lights

Slugg 2xCD/DL

Bipolar Explorer's Michael Serafin-Wells compares the New York shoegaze group's latest album to the wall-sized paintings of Gustave Courbet, and to his favoured Clash, Hüsker Dü and Minutemen double LPs. At 140 minutes, Last Lights is considerably longer than any of them (whether it's larger than a 20 foot canvas is a question of perspective, I suppose) and while scarcely sounding punky, ample discord is present in a set that builds itself around Serafin-Wells's multiplicity of guitar textures. "Across The Northern Winter Sky" sounds like Windy & Carl at their gothiest, which is very welcome. Valuable context also lies in the vocal contributions of Summer Serafin, who co-founded Bipolar Explorer and died in 2011; Serafin-Wells upholds her memory via these archived recordings.

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Jun 21

NEW ALBUM We are proud to announce the release of Bipolar Explorer's 13th album LAST LIGHTS. Get the album on Ampwall, Bandcamp, iTunes, and on streaming platforms (except Spotify). double CD + 20-page booklet. ampwall.com/a/bipolarexp... bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/last-l...

album cover for Bipolar Explorer's Last Lights is a pastel painting by William Degouve de Nuncques - Nocturne au Parc Royal, Bruxelles (1897). Public domain.
View of an empty French-style park (trees in rows, linear pathways), night is falling, streetlights appear through tree branches, beaming like moons in the deep blue and green colors of the painting. Quietness.

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Jun 9

Preview of Last Lights booklet! Preorder the double album (CD) - ampwall.com/a/bipolarexp... - bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/last-l... Last Lights is Bipolar Explorer's 13th album @bipolarexplorer.info

booklets for Last Lights, with lyrics and credits and several paintings (all from public domain) representing quiet gardens

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Jun 7

📆 Listening Party for Last Lights @bipolarexplorer.info When? Saturday June 20, 3pm EST / 21h GMT+1 Where? bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/merch/last-l... Who? Sylvia, Michael, and YOU!

Slugg Records presents
Listening Party
Saturday June 20
3pm NYC
21h France

On the eve of Summer Solstice, join Michael and Sylvia to listen and chat about Bipolar Explorer's 13th album, Last Lights.

bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
we hope to see you there!

https://sluggrecords.com
https://www.bipolarexplorer.info

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· May 21

"Last Lights" @bipolarexplorer.info on @ampwall.com main page!

homepage of Ampwall, with thumbnails of album covers

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Mar 24

Experimental dreampop trio Bipolar Explorer announce their new album -their 13th!- on Summer Solstice 2026. "Last Lights" - double album CD/Digital @bipolarexplorer.info

Cover image for Bipolar Explorer's album Last Lights.
by William Degouve de Nuncques - Nocturn in the Parc Royal, Brussels (1897) - pastel painting.
View of an empty French-style park (trees in rows, linear pathways), night is falling, streetlights appear through tree branches, beaming like moons in the deep blue and green colors of the painting. Quietness.

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Dec 9

Solstice Listening Party Sunday December 21 for @bipolarexplorer.info’s two Christmas albums

LISTENING PARTY Sunday December 21st
BPXmas followed by Til Morning is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas
TIL MORNING IS NIGH: A DREAM OF CHRISTMAS

Noon San Francisco / Los Angeles
3pm New York City / Boston
20h London / Glasgow
21h Paris / Berlin
Sam Tokyo / 7am Sydney (+1)

12:30 pm San Francisco / Los Angeles
3:30pm New York City / Boston
20h30 London / Glasgow
21h30 Paris / Berlin
5:30am Tokyo / 7:30am Sydney (+1)

BIPOLAR EXPLORER
join us https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
bipolarexplorer info
bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
sluggrecords.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Nov 19

C’est bientôt le 1er anniversaire de la sortie du 12e album de @bipolarexplorer.info, Memories of the Sky. Découvrez l’album sur notre site, ainsi que sur Bandcamp, @ampwall.com, et certains streamers. Memories of the Sky est disponible en double album CD avec livret, et en téléchargement.

Couverture de Memories of the Sky: [Sunset] par Roland Searle, New Zealand (1920, domaine public). Photo ancienne dans des tons sepia, vue sur l’océan et le ciel, de la lumière apparaît entre les nuages.

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Oct 24

PRE-ORDER sluggrecords.bandcamp.com/album/real-r...

Grey, white and black tones, this is a poster ad for:

Exclusive Audioplay
read by the author

REAL REAL GONE
A play by Michael Serafin-Wells
- "Heralding the arrival of a writer with an acute sense of language and a special ability to dramatize human behavior through language that rivets with its imagery and humor." - The Star-Ledgar (Newark)
- "The best of the bunch! With language that laces the natural poetics of the street with erudition, dramatic relevations and passionate resolves." - Variety (New York)

November 2nd on Bandcamp.

illustration: a flask with the Manhattan sky in the background

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Oct 7

Today 📻 on @campradio.bsky.social Bipolar Explorer’s The Other Room @bipolarexplorer.info 9am NYC / 15h France live on CAMP listen.camp replay tomorrow on Mixcloud

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Aug 17

Slugg Records presents “The Hauntology Series” “In The Hours Left Until Dawn” (2023) Listening Party Wednesday August 27th RSVP bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/merch/in-the...

SLUGG RECORDS Presents
The Hauntology Series
BIPOLAR EXPLORER
In The Hours Left Until Dawn (2023)
Listening Party
Wednesday August 27th
BIPOLAR EXPLORER
In The Hours Left Until Dawn
11 am Los Angeles / San Francisco
2pm New York / Boston
19h London / Glasgow
20h France / Berlin
RSVP
bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· May 16

Sortie aujourd’hui du 4ème album de Tremosphere @tremosphere.com “saturated solace” disponible en CD et numérique sur Slugg Records, Bandcamp, AppleMusic / iTunes, et autres. sluggrecords.com/shop/albums/...

On a black background, we see the picture of a woman, twice. She's a cis white woman, in the dark, naked, her long brunette straight hair falling on her breasts. No make up. The first iteration of the picture has a pink filter, the second a dark lavender one. Band name and album title are written in that same dark lavender tone.

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· May 3

www.resonancefm.com Bipolar Explorer, on A Duck in a Tree Resonance FM, London

Resonance FM front page

Resonance on air - Make a Donation
If you've missed our fundraising events or our eBay
Charity Auction, you can still make an online donation, with a one-off gift or a smaller regular donation via our donations page
On now • 7:00pm - 8:00pm
45 minutes left
A Duck in a Tree •
The zoviet * france: radio show. After the Day. This week's edition features new releases from Helena Espvall, Ernesto
Diaz-Infante and Marjorie Sturm; Billow Observatory;
Bipolar Explorer; and Cadlag; interleaved with post-circadian recordings by Cousin Silas and Kevin Lyons;
Mads Emil Nielsen; Lalo Schifrin; Paulo Faria; François Bayle; Canonbury; Jeff Duke; Lezet; and Hazard. [Repeats
Tuesday 12am.]

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Apr 24

Tomorrow on Bandcamp New single by @bipolarexplorer.info bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com

Cover image for Bipolar Explorer’s new single, Dreams of the Bell Tower Watchman.
“The Shepherd's Dream, from 'Paradise Lost'"- Henry Feseli (1793, Public Domain).
In a dark-lit room, still wearing his day clothes, a man has fallen asleep. A woman is seen smirking in the background. A group of 4 angel-like women are dancing in a circle, flying above the man.

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Apr 17

Free Bandcamp codes to discover Bipolar Explorer Of Love and Loss 10th Anniversary Live Set (2022) gwmk-ua8a 3sgt-jnb7 aqu2-ke4v rgw5-6758 v7ub-v3nz 6mwm-gwv6 krj6-74ty zvbu-5mrf z9ad-7tcm ntfp-v74g 5kab-gej3 gy95-3uts 32tf-hvul dmzv-e8aj sgt6-uruy

cover image for of Love and Loss 10th anniversary Live Set, with a light pink border and the album cover: a white woman drapping herself under the sea, which is a painting "Meditteraneo" by Alex Amany (used with permission).

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Mar 11

|radio| This Thursday, Michael @bipolarexplorer.bsky.social will guest on Silent Radio for a listening of Bipolar Explorer’s “Memories of the Sky” and interview. Tune in! 21h France / Italy 4pm NYC silentradio.it

Instagram screenshot from silentradio33 Giovedì 13 Marzo dalle ore 21.00 torna Michaelouis Serafin-Wells per raccontare un nuovo capitolo dei Bipolar Explorer.
Questa lunga storia, questo atto d'amore che non ha uguali.
Una telefonata che parte da Fantecolo per arrivare a New
York City.
Tra di noi un Oceano, ma solo apparente.
#memoriesc
° #sky #love #celebrations #music #song
#ambient #dreamy #postpunk #dreampop #postrock
#voices #bipolar #explorer @bipolarexplorer

and album cover picture of Memories of the Sky.

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Dec 19

Newsletter 12 - Winter Solstice edition sluggrecords.com/wp-admin/adm...

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Dec 10

Listening Party - December 21st RSVP: bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/merch/til-mo...

On a soft dark green background, there is the cover image of Bipolar Explorer's 2018 album Til Morning is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas, which is a painting representing Jacob wrestling with the Angel by L’udovit Kochol. Text on the poster announces the 2024 listening party for the album, on Bandcamp, on Saturday December 21st.

with Sylvia & Michael
2pm San Francisco / Los Angeles
5pm New York City / Boston
22h London / Glasgow
23h Paris / Berlin

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Dec 1

Memories of the Sky, by Bipolar Explorer reviews:

BIPOLAR EXPLORER
Memories of the Sky
"Brilliant. Deep and dark and one of the best albums of the year. As soon as it finished playing, I wanted to play all of it again. A fantastic album."
-black_ops (UK)
"Another precious piece of this infinite picture that tells of a love that is forever alive and present. The enchantment of enveloping sounds, of atmospheres that warm the heart, of a deep nostalgia that leads to greater sensitivity is renewed. Seagulls singing, a face on the horizon and a hand shaking that of someone we don't want to leave."
- liberio Faedi, Silent Radio (Italy)
"Epic, granitic, devastating, visionary. Album of the month!"
-Alex Dematteis, Musicshockworld (UK)
Available on double CD album, and digital
22 tracks, 18-page booklet
https://sluggrecords.com
https://www.bipolarexplorer.info
https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com

BIPOLAR EXPLORER
Memories of the Sky
"It's a silver lining in dark times like these, but anguish and the examination of one's self and our path through life tends to extract the finest creative impulses from the artistic community, and both artistic reflection and troubling trends around the world have
doubtless informed Bipolar Explorer's 12th album,
"Memories of the Sky" (their 5th double
album). It's a soundtrack to a mighty storm, where the passage of time brings increasing challenges, the pressure threatening to tear us from our very sense of self. Memories of the Sky might be our guidebook through this meandering path, as the journey is not always clear. Its chiming ambience brings us to places both desired and unbidden, the trio drawing back curtains on visions of delight and disenchantment. It is, quite simply, their crowning achievement, their finest work thus far. Five Stars. One of my Top Albums of the Year"
-Brian Damage, KFJC (California)
Available on double CD album, and digital
22 tracks, 18-page booklet
https://sluggrecords.com
https://www.bipolarexplorer.info
https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com

BIPOLAR EXPLORER
Memories of the Sky
"An even more sonically expansive album, filled with ever more exploratory sonics, liminalism, lost and found, hauntology - it's kind of like dreampop futurism. May its unearthly glow permeate even the toughest of hearts. It will! You'll see. Bipolar Explorer, keep on exploring. You are much loved by this show"
- Max Reinhardt, Soho Radio (London)
"A gorgeous album! Lush tracks, soundscapes and songs. Really beautiful stuff."
-Irene Trudel, WFMU (New York)
"Another giant-ass, double-length offering from this fertile, wonderfully apocalyptic crew.
Unflinching and unpretentious."
-Bleek Swinney, KHUH (Seattle)
"Astonishingly beautiful."
-Jeffrey Davison, CKUT (Montreal)
你众你你改
Available on double CD album, and digital
22 tracks, 18-page booklet
https://sluggrecords.com
https://www.bipolarexplorer.info
https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Nov 27

RSVP bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/merch/memori...

SLUGG RECORDS Presents

BIPOLAR EXPLORER
Memories of the Sky

11 am Los Angeles / San Francisco
2pm New York / Boston
19h London / Glasgow
20h Paris / Berlin

Listening Party
bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
Sunday December 1st

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Nov 19

Pre-order Memories of the Sky, new double album by @bipolarexplorer.bsky.social - bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/memori... - sluggrecords.com/shop/albums/...

Slugg Records presents Bipolar Explorer
Memories of the Sky

album cover:
[Sunset] by Roland Searle, New Zealand (1920, public domain)

old picture, in sepia tones, with sky and ocean, light coming out from the clouds.

"A gorgeous album! Lush tracks, soundscapes and songs. Really beautiful stuff."
-Irene Trudel, WFMU (New York)
"Another giant-ass, double-length offering from this fertile, wonderfully apocalyptic crew.
Unflinching and unpretentious."
-Bleek Swinney, KHUH (Seattle)
"Astonishingly beautiful."
-Jeffrey Davison, CKUT (Montreal)
"Brilliant. Deep and dark and one of the best albums of the year. As soon as it finished playing, I wanted to play all of it again.
A fantastic album."
-black_ops (UK)

Bipolar Explorer are Summer Serafin, Michael Serafin-Wells and Sylvia Solanas.
All songs, music, lyrics, and spoken word narrative poems by Michael Serafin- Wells. c/p. 2024 Bipolar Explorer, Slugg Records, Thirteen November Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
https://www.bipolarexplorer.info
https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
https://sluggrecords.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Nov 19

Bipolar Explorer, live! @bipolarexplorer.bsky.social next week on @keeptru.bsky.social show @gtdradio.bsky.social / @wfmu.bsky.social

BIPOLAR EXPLORER
LIVE on Irene Trudel
Monday November 25
on wmu.org / GTDR
bipolarexplorer. info
bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
sluggrecords.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Oct 18

#NewMusic Bipolar Explorer Memories of the Sky Pre-order today: - on our website sluggrecords.com/shop/albums/... - on the band’s Bandcamp bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com/album/memori...

Poster for the upcoming release of Bipolar Explorer’s Memories of the Sky.
The band’s 12th album, their 5th double album.
22 tracks, on digital and double CD with a 28-page booklet. Out december 1st on Slugg Records.
Bipolar Explorer are Summer Serafin, Michael Serafin-Wells and Sylvia Solanas. All songs, music, lyrics and spoken word narrative poems by Michael Serafin-Wells.
c/p. 2024 Bipolar Explorer, Slugg Records, Thirteen November Music (ASCAP).
https://www.bipolarexplorer.info
https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com
https://sluggrecords.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Oct 17

NEW 💿 #music #ambient 🎛️🎧 Preorder Bipolar Explorer’s 12th album “Memories of the Sky” out december 1st, double album, 22 tracks. sluggrecords.com/shop/albums/...

album cover
[Sunset] by Roland Searle, New Zealand (1920, public domain)

old picture, in sepia tones, with sky and ocean, light coming out from the clouds.

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Sep 7

SLUGG RECORDS presents
The Hauntology Series
BIPOLAR EXPLORER
Sometimes in Dreams
(2018)
Listening Party
Saturday September 14th
Noon San Francisco / Los Angeles
3pm New York City / Boston
20h London / Glasgow
21h Paris / Berlin
join us https://bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Aug 6

get to know our bands 🎛️🎧 Bipolar Explorer

promo card for NYC experimental dreampop trio Bipolar Explorer, with images of their 11 albums.
Websites:
bipolarexplorer.info
sluggrecords.com
Instagram: @instagram
Buy their music: bipolarexplorer.bandcamp.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Aug 6

get to know our bands 🎛️🎧 Here’s Tremosphere

promo card for band Tremosphere, with a band picture of Sylvia and Michael, as well as the cover pictures for their three albums and their latest single.
Websites:
tremosphere.com
sluggrecords.com
Instagram: @tremosphere
Buy their music: tremosphere.bandcamp.com

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Jul 29

💁🏻‍♀️

VP Kamala Harris holding a vinyl meme, this time with a copy of Bipolar Explorer’s double album Deux Anges (2020)

Slugg Records@sluggrecords· Jun 28

NEW 📻 Bipolar Explorer’s The Other Room: now on Tak Tent Radio taktentradio.com?p=3792