Minty Bipolar by Minty Bipolar

Chaotic, Shitty and Wild

Minty Bipolar are an Internet based group with members in 4 different states. They pass the tracks around like a painter who does one coat, and then ships the thing to their friend for the next layer. It makes for wildly, almost purposefully, uneven sounding material. The goal of the project, according to W (as much of a full name as any member will make public), the material: “Sounds bipolar because we have all been in entirely different mind states when certain tracks arrived. We all are close friends but the physical distance kept us apart during the making of this record.” The end result does not sound cobbled together. It’s a Lo-fi dance party in quarantine. Like streaming a low quality DJ set with only 10 people in the digital room. There’s odd intimacy. It’s a group-think project gone off the rails, and it feels like you are a step away from being in the creative process with these folks.
“Tank Hex Nut”, the introduction track, is the 90’s during our modern pandemic. It wheezes and stutters it’s way through an acid rave soundbite and teeters into Footwork. “Trapshooter” is ambient with overpowering D&B lurking around the corner. Some of the songs sound like inside jokes from the outside: full of confusing references and hastily assembled samples. It sounds loose because it is loose. But experiments like “Catheter Fox” and “Settling Oil” could only be formed through this looseness. If you are already listening to 2-Step remixes of Metallica you’ll be in for less of a surprise. But it’s all a surprise.
This is a record that could have only been made in the last few years, during this confusing and isolated point in human history. Minty Bipolar served up some (hard to stomach) comfort food. Collective Ego Death has finally wrangled the album out these scattered peoples. Let’s just hope the world doesn’t make it their last.

Collective Ego Death is a label dedicated to finding and preserving lost classics and releasing divergent artist's work.

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