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BIPOLAR SUNSHINE
shares new single & video
‘ANSWERS’

OUT NOW ON NOiZE RECORDINGS

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Image Credit: Cara Stricker

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“With its mysterious, swirling instrumentations, husky vocals, and deep, powerful melodies, “Gone” lays the foundations for a new era, whilst commenting on the struggles of love and the power it holds.” – NOTION MAGAZINE

“He seamlessly traverses through rave-ready synths, ambient soundscapes, and percussion-heavy drum patterns, with a passionate delivery ringing with the catchiness of pop” – ACCLAIM

“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

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Manchester born and LA based Bipolar Sunshine, real name Adio Marchant shares his latest single, the emotive and striking ‘Answers’. It is accompanied by a moody, futuristic video by Cole Daly of Actual Objects, who also directed the video for previous single ‘Gone’.  Both tracks are taken from his soon to be announced forthcoming album and mark a new era for Bipolar Sunshine on his new independent Australian label home, NOiZE Recordings.

The single holds special significance for Bipolar Sunshine, who says “This song relives the journey of my life to this point. I’ve started questioning everything around me to see if I can capture the essence of what makes me who I am. By the time I finished with ‘Answers’, it felt like I was having an out of body experience and speaking one on one with God.”

Director Cole Daly describes the making of the video;  “At Actual Objects we like to find new ways to integrate the reality with the digital beyond traditional vfx techniques. For our first collaboration with Bipolar Sunshine we focused on projecting the digital onto live captured footage and reprocessing those together, but for ‘Answers’ we took a different approach: instead taking captured footage and projecting that onto digital matter, rendering live captured media in a digital space lends to a completely new style where the whole worldbuild of the project drives a technique which drives the entire aesthetic.”

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 subgenres like acid house. You can hear all of it — the political bent, the pop potential, the groundswell of aliveness, in Marchant’s music.

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