Photos By Julia Khoroshilov
If I were to assign a neurological disorder to Bipolar’s tape it wouldn’t be bipolar necessarily… I’d be quicker to call it manic. Whether it’s the drums, bass, guitar, or punchy vocals speeding everything forwards, 1-(800)-CALL-ICE, out today March 4, is kind of crazy. Not in a bad way – not in a way that’s meant to demean or accuse. It’s crazy in a way that acknowledges that things are really messed up right now and having a clouded mind or scrambled emotions is totally valid. The state of things is entirely conducive to craziness.
The four songs on 1-(800)-CALL-ICE are blunt as a bat to the head and as frantically grim as depression itself. It does sound like a first EP from a band in that it’s raw and a little unhinged, like this anger and anxiety surrounding the current state of the world has been building up and bubbling, waiting to be let go for a while.
Recorded by Ben Greenberg and released by DIM THINGS, this EP is one that begs to be experienced live in all its fuzzy-loud glory. If you’re in Brooklyn, you can do just that tonight at Trans Pecos where they’ll be playing with Retail, FLASYD, and Nick Cage for their EP release party.
Until then these photos can speak for themselves.
Follow them here and listen here, and be sure to catch them at Trans Pecos.
