EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Bipolar Bear - Manbase + Cherokee Fan Club
The brilliantly-named Bipolar Bear deal in the kind of musical mood swings their moniker would suggest, mincing along with a gleeful swamp-rock swing one minute before turning on you with prickly guitars and crash cymbal blare. They're so up-and-down that the songs seem to outlast their two-minute time-tags, structures packed with ingenious detours and vocal yelps struggling to be heard over the din. Counting among their ranks former members of The Manifolds and the late Rose For Bohdan, as well as the two guys who run Kill Shaman records, Bipolar Bear are a band who clearly know their history but aren't afraid to fuck with it, bringing muddy rock roots to bear on the type of oddball indie-rock their LA hometown's best known for at the moment. A pair of thoroughbred examples await your ears below, "Manbase" and "Cherokee Fan Club" both delighting in their bad attitudes and out soon on different 7" pressings.
Sounds Like: At The Drive-In, Talbot Tagora, Abe Vigoda
Bipolar Bear - Cherokee Fan Club
