Oct 31, 2008

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