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“The days I’m my best/ I’m down on my knees/ Picking hopes from the ashtray…” Bipolia’s lyrics carry a longing for connection and confession, staying profoundly personal. The second track from her debut album “There, I said it”, out via Veego Records, was written and recorded in a ground floor apartment in Kypseli area. According to Bipolia herself “it addresses ignorance surrounding privilege in the music/art world, the crap you overhear on the night bus and Athens as a burning ashtray”.
Video credits:
Directed, Filmed, Edited, Sound Design by Maximos ‘Halbert’ Pantelidakis/ Camera Assistance by Camille Cornillon/ Produced by Bipolia/ Recorded at Bipolia’s bedroom/ Production and Instruments by Bipolia/ Mixed by Dimitris Staikopoulos at Electricity Sound Studio/ Mastered by Ekelon.
Bipolia
She is nothing if not refreshingly direct, creating music that feels both evocatively raw and painfully shallow, that has already led to critical buzz-building. The Greek singer-songwriter’s breakthrough of 2024 is the 90s influenced debut album, “There, I said it”, where she explores themes of identity, artistic expression and human connection, with a firm grasp on her own emotional failings, sounding both soft and fierce.
The self- taught singer/songwriter started sharing her music while busking in the streets of London, after dropping out of her studies at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Patras and following her studies at film making in Thessaloniki. Her artistic path led her back in Greece, where she started crafting her sonic universe.
Evangelia, as her first name goes, introduced the bones of her sound, which generally revolve around dark-hued indie rock and grunge, bringing to mind Arctic Monkeys, King Isis, and a vocal delivery that balances intelligence and sass. Like an urban magpie weaving bits of DIY aesthetics into her nest, her artful alternative pop-rock comes from a contemporary place and her songs tackle the overly commercialized industry that builds up steadily and consistently around the trickiest of concepts: the self-image. And Bipolia confronts it with wittiness and humor.
Photo credits : Veego Records
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