Bipolar: A Review

Category:	Music
Genre:	Indie Music
Artist:	Up dharma Down

Audibly stunning!

I am trying not to exaggerate my review on this beautiful album. Call me biased since I'm a fan of this group ever since their first album, Fragmented. I can't help not to praise it.

Three years in the making. Well-written words, the musical arrangement is excellent; everything in it is a masterpiece. I think I could never encounter such great an album as this one in this lifetime. An instant classic!

Should I be a failure as a reviewer of an album if I can't see a flaw, then so be it.

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(this is available only from the limited edition package)

Apart from the album itself is the documentary entitled "On Either Side", Directed by Keith Tan. It featured each member's opinion about the album, and the music they wanted to contrive and share. Capturing the essence of creating a good album artistically done through less talk and more music. It's like every background music the director put it was what the band's speaks of for a particular question or feelings.

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10 songs that embraces every inch of what you feel, 4 instrumentals that would take you to an aesthetical world, packaged in the most unique way and a documentary that might change your view towards OPM in a positively and artistic way; You could never ask for more. :)

Tell Santa or your friends from the Nightmare Before Christmas characters to save you one now!

Go here for more info on how to score the limited ed. album:

http://www.updharmadown.com

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Track List:

1. Blessed
2. Clockwork
3. Delayed Breathing
4. All Year Round
5. Taya
6. Unspoken Definites
7. The Cold Is Warmth
8. Two
9. Sana
10. Return, Saturn, Return
11. Every First Second
12. Furnace
13. Silid
14. Sugarcoats & Heartbeats

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photo above courtesy of www.updharmadown.com

Sana

"Ako, sila'y nandito na. IKAW na lang ang kulang. Anong lunod o lalim ba't di na lang lumutang? Anong pait ang matamis at aking susubukan? Anong silbi ang NARITO kung di mo na kailangan?"
-'Sana' by UpdharmaDown


Last song syndrome, since I left awe-srucked by their performance last Friday on the launch of their new album "Bipolar". Man, this is music in the most brilliant form!

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ms.acey! i was about to call you when my phone went off. so that you'd hear them play. i hope you'll grab an album right after they hit music stores there! if you love Fragmented, you'll definitely going to embrace Bipolar more. and i guarantee you, it's like a new first album of dharma. :)

30 Lives!

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start

Sana may cheat code sa larangan ng pag ibig.

However, it will be senseless to spend the remaining 29 lives if you're alone. Imagine going alone in the outskirts of a vast jungle, picking up guns for you to survive up to the last stage. It takes two to tango as the old saying says. And No. You are not like Mario to stand all by yourself to face King Koopa.

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start

One day, it will happen: Someone will push the "select" button for you.

And together, even if without the cheat code, As long as she'll fight with you side by side, you'll going to make it.

Bipolar

I halted all my thoughts about neve and the things that I can do to help, in my little ways, about the financial crisis, to publicly and proudly announce this:





Highly anticipated and much awaited album of the year. :)

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Seek Help and You Will Find It

Time is a luxury I can't afford.
And frankly, hope is already thin.
She's leaving for the States.
I dunno when.
Perhaps I got a week or two to prepare.
No. This is not about winning her heart now. It's too late for that.
This is about a different kind of heart.
The kind of heart you'll have for her in a given situation.
That despite of declaration of love and separation, you'll still
pour out love that's duly given to her.
That in spite of it all, it's not what you'd become when she leaves that would matter,
it's what you've done to show what sincere love really is.

That according to the Bible, love never fails.

This is about love in the most splendid way.

What I got is NOW. I got nothing left to lose. It's already been a lose-lose situation ever since. Pero tinuloy ko pa rin. E mahal mo e. Yun 'yon.

Guys and girls! I need you to answer this question. It will really really help me. promise.

For Guys:
What's the (positively) craziest thing you did or will do for love?

For Girls:
What would be the craziest thing you wanted or wished a guy would do for you in the name of love?


please... this is crucial for me. And all of your suggestion/s will matter.

Thank you all! Wish Me Luck.

And wish me luck sana di niya mabasa ito. haha! She doesn't blog hops here. Or so I thought.

Apparently

Happy and sad at the same time.

Happy because you thought of her almost every after an hour. You thought of her whenever you were caught alone inside a fast food chain with lots of couples around you. You are unaware that your last MRT stop had just passed two stations away. And never you will mind the fuss of riding back again and waiting for a new train on a rush hour. People will see you smiling amidst the heavy rain and lack of discipline towards motorists. And you shall never give a shit. Yes, smiling, chuckling for a second. It's as if someone pinched one of your funny bones. Never you will mind the foul smell of someone sitting beside you. Nor the fare ride change you received from unscrupulous tricycle drivers. Nor their excuse.. "Wala akong singkwenta centavos, bossing e." and say "Ayos lang."

You will finally brought up an excuse to make your own world happily go around. It's crazy when you do nice things when you're in love. It's not that I was a bad person. It's just that... well, you know what I mean.

And the only therepy to this kind of disease is S.T.W.H. (Spending Time With Her)

But how? Suggestions, anyone?

Sad. Because you can't do anything about it as of yet. You just need to bear the thought of having one way communication. Call her? Hmm... Not my thing.

Missing someone so badly is synonymous to ten thousand sighs per hour.

And apparently, it all comes down to this five cliched words:

I hate to admit it but yes,

I miss you so much.