Flood is a report and a rebirth, wherein the Minnesotan band relinquished 5 years of labor to in the end seize 13 tracks in simply 10 days on the Texas border. Whereas the revelatory classes happened at Sonic Ranch final 12 months, with longtime producers Caleb Wright (Charly Bliss, Samia) and Brad Prepare dinner (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee), the method started what now looks like an epoch in the past.
The identical night time that Hippo Campus celebrated their earlier LP3, they came upon somebody they cherished had unexpectedly handed. The whiplash of maturity was amplified by the consequences of demise, dejection, dependancy and nervousness, so that they dedicated themselves to the overwhelming ambition of making one thing profound and life-changing. They acquired sober collectively, maintained their common routine of group remedy, wrote greater than 100 songs, took a step again and abruptly realised they didn’t truly get pleasure from what they have been making.
They cleaned the slate and dropped all preconceptions of how they thought they needed to sound, stopped themselves from making an attempt to power out a so-called masterpiece, and dedicated one another to reducing what all of them preferred finest: no second guessing or listening again, solely a mantra of ahead momentum. Lower than two weeks later, singer Jake Luppen, guitarist Nathan Stocker, drummer Whistler Allen and bassist Zach Sutton emerged with Flood.
Talking forward of their newest single launch, the band defined: “‘Paranoid’ is the gathering of solar flares plastered towards your eyelids after falling asleep outdoors. What’s left of whipping shitties in your self-conscious for too lengthy. It’s a tough look within the unforgiving mirror and the sobering realisation that not all questions have solutions.”
The brand new single follows current releases, “Tooth Fairy” and “All the pieces At As soon as”.
Tracklist:
- Prayer Man
- Paranoid
- Fences
- All the pieces At As soon as
- Flood
- Corduroy
- Slipping Away
- Model New
- Tooth Fairy
- Madman
- Overlook It
- Nearer
- I Bought Time
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