Name: Flood
Brand: Hippo Campus

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PSY051LPC1SIGNED

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Clear

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Clear Galaxy

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Extended format: Yes

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With Signed Artwork Print

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-09-20

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Signed copies: Yes

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0850056058582

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PSY051LP

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0850056058568

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PSY051LPC1

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PSY051CD

0850056058520

PSY051CS

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0850056058551

Artist

Hippo Campus

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Alternative / Modern

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Psychic Hotline

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As an artist-run label, Psychic Hotline understands the unique needs and challenges faced by musicians. They provide a supportive and collaborative environment where artists can freely express themselves and explore their creative potential. By working closely with each artist, they ensure that every release reflects the artist's vision while also meeting the highest standards of quality.

With its strong connections to the vibrant music scene in Durham, Psychic Hotline has cultivated a diverse roster of talented artists across various genres. From indie rock to electronic pop, their lineup showcases the best of what North Carolina has to offer. Through strategic partnerships and innovative marketing strategies, Psychic Hotline strives to elevate its artists' careers and help them reach new audiences worldwide.

Hippo Campus is a talented indie rock band hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota. The group consists of Jake Luppen on vocals and guitar, Nathan Stocker on guitar and vocals, Zach Sutton on bass, and Whistler Allen on drums and vocals. They first crossed paths at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists during high school. Prior to forming Hippo Campus, the members played in various other bands before coming together under this new name. Luppen and Stocker's musical partnership grew after performing at School of Rock in Minnesota. Their unique sound has also been showcased in their side project [a7024471] with [a7538637].
With their roots firmly planted in St. Paul, Minnesota, Hippo Campus brings a fresh perspective to the indie rock scene.
The band's lineup includes Jake Luppen (vocals/guitar), Nathan Stocker (guitar/vocals), Zach Sutton (bass), and Whistler Allen (drums/vocals). Each member honed their skills at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists where they attended high school.

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Hippo Campus’ 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. 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. But Luppen and all of Hippo Campus decided they didn’t actually like what they were making.

So they called an audible. They were going to start over. And three months later, the four-member core of Hippo Campus rendezvoused with longtime collaborator Caleb 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. 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.

The sentiments on Flood are raw, real, and unguarded, a testament to Hippo Campus dropping preconceptions of how they had to sound after so many failed attempts to re-record these songs. They wiped the slate clean, starting over without beliefs about what Hippo Campus or this record needed to be. Still, sophistication lurks in subtle key and tempo changes, in the almost innate shifts that a band of longtime best friends can tap after so much time spent helping to shape one another’s musical language. Flood doesn’t need to tell you it’s important or interesting; it simply is, just by virtue of how it’s written, built, and rendered, a map of what it’s like to feel everything at once. This rebirth is accompanied by a crucial career shift for Hippo Campus, too, as they exit the traditional label system to issue LP4 via Psychic Hotline, a truly independent imprint run by peers and pals. If you’re working to let go of expectations, why not jettison them all? There’s a bravery to that, and you can hear its revivifying spirit in every second of LP4.

Early into the endlessly propulsive “Paranoid,” where stunted acoustic strums undergird an inescapable jangle, Luppen asks an existential question: “Is there something waiting out there for us at the finish line?” For the next three minutes, the band cycles with him through his woes, from the title’s overwhelming worry to notions of dislocation and loneliness. (Also, is there any other refrain ever that manages to make the phrase “so god-damned fucking” sound so catchy and natural?) But in the final verse, with his voice breaking through a scrim of distortion, he stumbles upon a new credo: “Wait, I wanna give this life all that I have in me.” That is precisely what Hippo Campus have done with Flood after realizing it doesn’t take a Lifetime or, well, five years to do just that.

Flood

Music GB

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