Hippo Campus - Flood

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