HIPPO CAMPUS – FLOOD - TAPE •

UPC: 850056058551 Label: PSYCHIC HOTLINE Format: TAPERelease Date: September 20, 2024In stock items ship within 48 hours The four-member core of Hippo Campus rendezvousedwith longtime collaborator Caleb Wright and producer Brad Cook atSonic Ranch, a playground-like studio complex on the Texas border.They gave themselves 10 days to cut the tracks they liked best, tomake something to which they could commit at last. Less than twoweeks later, they emerged with what they’d given themselves half adecade to make—Flood, or the best album Hippo Campus has evermade.The sentiments on Flood are raw, real, and unguarded, a testamentto Hippo Campus dropping preconceptions of how they had tosound after so many failed attempts to re-record these songs. Theywiped the slate clean, starting over without beliefs about what HippoCampus or this record needed to be. Still, sophistication lurks insubtle key and tempo changes, in the almost innate shifts that a bandof longtime best friends can tap after so mu