Release date: September 9, 2009. Unrated Magazine Review: "Nocturnal Journal is the second album by The Bipolar Bears, an indie-virtual-experimental group which came out with Water Therapy in 2006. Following the thematic technique of the first album which sang of love, longing and loss using the metaphor of water, Nocturnal Journal focuses on the subject of night and darkness while intuiting a deeper, more personal story coming from the artist. As any album with a predefined theme, in this case the nocturne, it runs the challenge of finding all the angles we traditionally assign to the word, exploring them, and giving a new story to a much abused metaphor, transcending our notions of that archetype to provide us with a deeper look into what else it might hold... Nocturnal Journal plays on the wonders and nightmares of a few hours when we are mostly pondering the hours that came before, and the hours that came after. It is strangely familiar in the sense that we are all nocturnal creatures, creating these reckless stories of pain and confusion and ambivalence, to live them again for another night." User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.