Music / RiseBipolar Bear (Los Angeles, California)Low-key musical quartet Bipolar Bear, keep things minimal with their Limited Appeal 12” release.ShareLink copied ✔️September 4, 2009MusicRiseTextMartina Randles Industrial music lovers Bipolar Bear apparently sound nothing like their idols, instead their music is laced with guitar clashes, banshee drums and rhythmic distorted vocals which wind up and tease into melodic low releases, more down tempo and painterly than hard-faced angst. The band remains low-key, with blurred out faces on press photographs; hype is lame…Q&AWhat's...... your description of your sound?Um pretty darn 90's. Lots of listening to Monorchid in high school, since then a lot of listening to old Zick Zack records and industrial. However, none of that seems to show up in any of the music.... so special about you, then?Geez. According to a lot of press nothing, some others seem to think the stuff isn't so bad.... the story behind your name?Big Mistake!... your tip for 2009?Keep things minimal, I hate overexposed bands with pictures everywhere. Hype is lame. ... your favorite website?www.blogsblow.com ... your favourite piece of clothing?Socks.... your worst fashion secret?Going bald.... your dream musical collaboration?Find and release old German Shepards records.... the name of your hero?Al Jourgensen... so special about your hero?Heroin, label king, band whore.... your karaoke song?Never done it.... the best piece of advice you've heard?I am still waiting.... the one thing you'd kill for?World Peace.... your vision of the future?RAD! If by rad you mean a really awful death? Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORECorridos tumbados: A guide to Mexico’s most controversial music genreSekou is the 21-year-old baritone making 70s soul cool againDon’t Be Dumb: The top 5 features on A$AP Rocky’s new album The rise of ‘Britainicana’: How Westside Cowboy are reshaping UK indieR!R!Riot is Taiwan’s pluggnb princessWhen did UK underground rap get so Christian? Why listening parties are everywhere right nowA night out with Feng, the ‘positive punk’ of UK UgDoppel-gäng gäng gäng: 7 times artists used body doublesWesley Joseph is the Marty Supreme of R&B (only nicer) How Turnstile are reinventing hardcore for the internet ageWill these be the biggest musical moments of 2026?