Leírás
Alternative/Indie Pop/Rock, Folk Rock, Melodic Rock,
Limited edition SZÍNES bakelit lemez 2LP kiadvány, 2024-es album.
Limited to 1000 copies on 180g Azure Dream vinyl. Featuring a trifold jacket and fold-out poster. The Minneapolis-based band Hippo Campus’s fourth album Flood is the best album they’ve ever made. But to arrive at this pivotal point of collective self-confidence, they had to start over. Flood filters all-encompassing feelings through absorbing arrangements and massive hooks that can only be pulled off by friends who’ve been speaking the same musical and emotional language since they were kids.
Hippo Campus were sitting in the green room of a sold-out amphitheater show at the start of the Summer of 2023 when they realized they had a major problem. Their fourth LP simply wasn’t good enough. Singer Jake Luppen had been listening to the band’s work as they rolled around the country, trying to tease out how much work remained. All of it, he soon decided. The soul wasn’t there, obfuscated by the need to sound sophisticated and the overwhelming ambition to make the best Hippo Campus LP ever, a deeper and more profound record that reflected how their lives were changing.
They’d committed to that vow with longtime producer and collaborator Caleb Wright a little more than a year earlier, soon after a party where they celebrated the release of LP3. That very night, the call came that a longtime friend had unexpectedly died. They started this band as kids and enjoyed quick momentum, their thrill-a-minute live shows and charismatically experimental pop albums creating almost-instant, avid attention. But this was Hippo Campus’ first close brush with death; as adulthood encroached, the actual call of mortality reminded them of the stakes of art, friendship, and life.
So they committed to doing something major, even if it meant taking five years to do it. They took the task seriously, too: getting sober for an entirely improvisational session at North Carolina’s Drop of Sun months later, regularly attending therapy as a full band, writing more than 100 songs in only a year. That was all well and good, until Luppen and, really, all of Hippo Campus decided they didn’t actually like what they were making. Life and work had been dark in their orbit for a second—death and dejection, addiction and anxiety. This uneasy epiphany wasn’t helping.
So that night, in the dressing room, they called an audible. They were going to start over. Three months later, the four-member core of Hippo Campus rendezvoused with Wright and producer Brad Cook at Sonic Ranch, a playground-like studio complex on the Texas border. They gave themselves 10 days to cut the tracks they liked best, to make something to which they could commit at last. And Cook, in turn, gave them an edict of no second guessing or listening back, only forward momentum. Less than two weeks later, they emerged with what they’d given themselves half a decade to make—Flood, or the best album Hippo Campus has ever made.
Felállás:
Jake Luppen – lead vocals, guitar
Nathan Stocker – guitar, backing vocals, piano (on “Fences,” “Everything At Once,” “Slipping Away,” “Brand New, ”“Forget It” and “Closer”), harmonica (on “Corduroy”)
Zach Sutton – bass guitar
Whistler Allen – drums, backing vocals (on “Fences,” “Slipping Away,” and “I Got Time”)
YouTube video:
„Paranoid”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1x5KjPR54U
„Flood”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_oQfC4JAkc
HIPPO CAMPUS: https://www.youtube.com/@HippoCampusMN/videos
Felvételek:
2LP:
1. Prayer Man 03:38
2. Paranoid 03:41
3. Fences 03:38
4. Everything At Once 03:49
5. Flood 03:59
6. Corduroy 03:10
7. Slipping Away 03:00
8. Brand New 03:31
9. Tooth Fairy 03:19
10. Madman 03:25
11. Forget It 04:01
12. Closer 03:21
13. I Got Time 04:31
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