05 January 2009

Up Dharma Down - Bipolar Album Review

I suck at describing music that I love. This album is exactly that--music that I love. And love is a word I don't throw around easily.

So instead of failing miserably to describe how this album sounds, I'll share what I think of it. Very few sophomore albums can say that they are better than their critically acclaimed and commercially successful predecessors. This is one such album. But this one doesn't edge out like Pinkerton did against The Blue Album. It demolishes Fragmented like it was an amateur effort. And Fragmented was no amateur effort. It WAS the best Filipino musical achievement of this millennium.

Bipolar is modern. It is brave. It is emotional yet brilliant. Shut yourself in a room and turn the volume up.