Bipolar Sunshine - Rivers

Video released June 13th 2013

Before I begin the review I'd like to take you on the journey of how I discovered Bipolar Sunshine and like most of my stories it begins with me scrolling through the 14,000+ tracks on my iPod looking for something to listen to until finally reaching a track I hadn't heard in a while, the track I stumbled upon this time happened to be Kid British with "Our House is Dadless". Back in 2010 this track was on a constant loop for me and featuring in almost every playlist I created, I'd recently discovered The King Blues and my ska punk hunger was forcing me to devour anything with fast lyrics and catchy instrumentals. After listening to "Our House Is Dadless" again I wondered what had happened with the band, I'd heard they'd broke up in late 2012 but nothing else, giving lead singer Adio Marchants's name a Google lead me to his new project, Bipolar Sunshine and their debut EP Aesthetics.

Now you know the origins of me finding this track I'm going to move on to airing my views of it as best I can.

The good news is that it's absolutely fantastic, the bad news is as of yet you've got minimal material to listen to as Bipolar Sunshine have barely been going any time at all. The song has a quality to it that makes it seem like a classic even if you've never listened to it before, I'm not saying in it's sheer quality and it is brilliant, it's more in the sound and tone making it sound far more mature.

The brilliance of the track in my opinion is down to how much different it is to the previous material released by Marchant, to change your sound so drastically and still produce something of such worth is a difficult feat for most artists, even established musicians can find it a struggle but this seems somehow natural, it just works fantastically.

There's just something so charming and interesting about this new project that I'm just too excited for future releases, Marchant has struck gold with this project, he's proving that he can be upbeat and poppy with Kid British while making something experimental but still accessible.