American indie heavyweights Hippo Campus have revealed they will be releasing their fourth studio album ‘Flood’ later this year.
To coincide with the announcement, the Minnesotan band have released single ‘Paranoid’, the third release ahead of the new LP due in September.
‘Flood’ is a record and a rebirth, in which Hippo Campus relinquished five years of work to write and record 13 tracks in just 10 days on the Texas border. While the revelatory sessions took place at Sonic Ranch last year, with longtime producers Caleb Wright (Charly Bliss, Samia) and Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee), the process began what now feels like an epoch ago.
‘Paranoid’ arrives on the heels of recently released singles and music videos for ‘Tooth Fairy’ and ‘Everything at Once’, it’s a melodic and jangly tune which takes the band back to their roots.
Speaking on their latest single release, the band explained: “‘Paranoid’ is the collection of sun flares plastered against your eyelids after falling asleep outside. What’s left of whipping shitties in your self-conscious for too long. It’s a hard look in the unforgiving mirror and the sobering realisation that not all questions have answers.”
‘Flood’ sits at the intersection of vulnerability and urgency. The album filters all-encompassing feelings through the type of absorbing arrangements and massive hooks that can only be pulled off by a group of friends who have been speaking the same musical and emotional language since they were kids. Thus, ‘Flood’ shows how four people connected so intimately for so long can evolve as individuals while preserving the bond that makes what they do together so special.
As Hippo Campus exit the traditional label system to release ‘Flood’ through an independent, artist-run record company founded by their pals in Sylvan Esso, they are also preparing to play their biggest gigs to date, including a headline show at London’s iconic Shepherd’s Bush Empire on December 4th.
The fourth studio album ‘Flood’ from Hippo Campus is released on 20th September, 2024. Pre-order here.
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