Michael Louis Serafin-Wells

Michael and the band will release their 13th album, another double-album - Last Lights - on the day of the Summer Solstice (June 21st). More info soon…

Michael was hugely honored to be back on the air with the legendary Max Reinhardt ( the founder of BBC 3's “Late Junction” and a huge champion of Bipolar Explorer, having Michael on for multiple interviews on his Soho Radio “Late Late Lunch” show). Michael and Max played tracks, discussed current affairs, the upcoming BPX album (with an exclusive preview) and more. Listen to the now archived broadcast here. Thank you so much, Max! 

Tremosphere's saturated solace has been named to three Best Albums of 2025 lists! WFMU's great Irene was the first, playing a track on her year-in-review show on WFMU. And tributes have also come in from Berlin's Florgoth and California's Hunter Felt. Excerpts below:

Michael and the band were honored and delighted to have been featured on Seattle's KHUH this Saturday during the annual special 24 hour broadcast observing “Art's Birthday” (a celebration in memory of Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on 17 January 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years before). 

The group shared an hour with Spanish composer and sound artist, Ishak Benevides. Listen again on MixCloud here. 

The BPX set begins near the 22 minute mark and includes four tracks - “eleven:eleven”, “The Storm Passes”, “In Between Hours” and “The Dark Outside, The Light Within” - from their 2021 album, Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams. 

Today we observe the 46th birthday of Michael's late-girlfriend and co-founder of Bipolar Explorer, Summer Serafin. 

In honor of her, the band released a new video this morning - for “Hold My Soul” from their 12th album, Memories of the Sky. Find it here and also on the band's YouTube channel. 

Happy Birthday, Summer! 

A listening party for Michael's play Real Real Gone will be live tomorrow, Sunday November 2nd, on the Slugg Records Bandcamp page, 3pm NYC time. Info and RSVP here. 

Slugg Records will release an audiobook/radio play recording of Michael's celebrated one-act play, Real Real Gone on November 2nd (All Soul's Day). Read by the author himself, find it on the Slugg Records Bandcamp page and at the link above. 

Michael and the band are enormously grateful to the UK's great This is Darkness and Editor Rich Dodgin for their naming Memories of the Sky among their Top Albums for the month of June. Excerpt of review below and full article here. Thank you so much!

“…Containing elements of dark ambient and drone, but also shoegaze, dreampop, and post-rock, Memories of the Sky – the latest release from Bipolar Explorer – is impossible to pigeon-hole… and that’s no bad thing! Featuring 22 tracks of brilliantly dark, deep, and meditative music, this album is perfect for sitting inside as you watch the thunderstorm and lashing rain through the window, and contemplate your life and the wider world around you. Simply divine!” 

-Rich Dodgin, editor- This is Darkness (UK) 

It's only just come to our attention that Bipolar Explorer's 12th album, Memories of the Sky, was 15th in the WFMU charts of Most Heavily Played Records in March. Huge thanks to everyone at the station - especially the great Irene Trudel, who had the band live on her show and was the group's earliest champion, first debuting their work on her program over a decade ago. Thank you!

Commensurate with the release of Tremosphere's 4th album, saturated solace,  the UK's “Suspended in Air” program has featured the record on their show - which includes tracks from both Tremosphere and Bipolar Explorer, as well as an extensive interview with Michael and Sylvia by host Sean Carroll. Hear the program in its entirety here.