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BIPOLAR SUNSHINE
returns with
new single + video
‘GONE’
out now on
NOiZE RECORDINGS

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BIPOLAR SUNSHINE // Photo Credit: Cara Stricker

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“He’s making music that’s pretty undeniable in its pop contagiousness” – THE FADER

“[A] gift for crafting memorable choruses without giving in to transparent pop sensibilities” – PIGEONS AND PLANES

“Heartbreak epics with DIY ethos” – THE GUARDIAN

“Marchant’s knack for weighty pop is still very much intact.” – THE LINE OF BEST FIT

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Today, the artist Bipolar Sunshine, real name Adio Marchant returns with his eagerly anticipated new single ‘Gone’. The Manchester born, Los Angeles based artist has also shared the video for the single, directed by Cole Daly of Actual Objects. It also marks anew era for Bipolar Sunshine, as the first music released on his new independent Australian label home, NOiZE Recordings.

With its infectious dembow beat and husky, whispered vocal, ‘Gone’ expands what listeners know of Bipolar Sunshine’s musical base. Marchant says of the song, “‘Gone’ is a challenge of duality. It’s like an inner conversation with self about the lengths we are willing to go through for something or someone that we love so badly, and how far gone we can become in our own minds on this pursuit, as love and infatuation lay side by side.” The track comes on the heels of a number of recent collaborations with Surf Mesa, San Holo, MILCK and BabyJake , it also marks his first solo release since 2017 single ‘Major Love’.

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Bipolar Sunshine is a remarkable builder of bridges: between the rarefied and the regular, the accessible and the experimental, the heartbreaking and the heartwarming. Take, for example, the first time a song of his ever went platinum: Bipolar Sunshine received the news of ‘Middle’, his collaboration with DJ Snake, going platinum on a crowded bus in his hometown of Manchester. No champagne was necessary: for Bipolar Sunshine a local bus, surrounded by the peculiarities and eccentricities of the hometown that raised him, was an oddly perfect place to find out something so significant.

Born in Manchester to Jamaican parents, Marchant was exposed to the broad, brilliant full spectrum of pop’s potential from a young age. Growing up, his mother had the kind of omnivorous taste that’s commonplace now but was a holy grail back then, playing her son everything from The Carpenters to rich, lovers’ rock reggae. Marchant’s father would play on the drums, instilling a sharp sense of timing in his son, as well as a sharp sense of how breaking time can often be as important as keeping it. Perhaps even more importantly, Marchant was growing up against a musical backdrop that was chaotic and bursting with new ideas, and Manchester would soon become the driving force behind revolutionary sub genres like acid house. You can hear all of it—the political bent, the pop potential, the groundswell of aliveness, in Marchant’s music.

‘GONE’ is out now HERE

Watch the ‘GONE’ video

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Single Artwork: Ben Arfur

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AMNPLIFY – JC