Hippo Campus - Flood (2LP)Standard edition double LP. 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 wasnt good enough. Singer Jake Luppen had been listening to the bands work as they rolled around the country, trying to tease out how much work remained. All of it, he soon decided. The soul wasnt there, obfuscated by the need to sound

can exist between people but also within oneself

expansive and hypnotic

” and rather than attaching any one specific meaning to the work as a whole

A distinct departure from their previous albums – more sixties pop and less indie and psych rock – <atrás/além> is the product of the band working in a familiar studio (RISCO) surrounded by a creative community

addiction and anxiety

If you are buying as a gift

Gustafson admits

Transmigration Blues is a welcome statement of radical acceptance

compromise and gain of adulthood come into full view

All These Years feels like starting over

to make something to which they could commit at last

from close friends and challenging strangers