Hippo Campus announce their new album Flood. The group of four childhood friends first had to sigh, surrender and start all the way over. The LP drops on September 20th via Psychic Hotline. The recording sessions took place at Sonic Ranch last fall, with longtime producers Caleb Wright (Charly Bliss, Samia) and Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). The same night that Hippo Campus celebrated their previous LP3, they found out someone they loved had unexpectedly passed. The group also experienced the effects of death, dejection, addiction and anxiety. They got sober together, maintained their regular routine of group therapy, wrote more than 100 songs, took a step back and suddenly realized they didn’t actually enjoy what they were making.

“”Paranoid” is the collection of sun flares plastered against your eyelids after falling asleep outside,” says the band. “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 realization that not all questions have answers.”

The track arrives on the heels of recently released singles and music videos for “Tooth Fairy” and “Everything at Once,” which earned a million streams in a month, and has been performed live at Governors Ball, Summerfest and Day In Day Out. Throughout the rest of Flood, Hippo Campus deliver tightly-coiled theses on self-criticism and self-forgiveness, empowerment and falling short of expectations, failed relationships and finding a way forward. The sentiments are raw, real and unguarded, backed by subtle key changes and tempo shifts, and the innate sophistication they are able to present so effortlessly.

Hippo Campus
Flood
Tracklist

Prayer Man
Paranoid
Fences
Everything At Once
Flood
Corduroy
Slipping Away
Brand New
Tooth Fairy
Madman
Forget It
Closer
I Got Time

Hippo Campus 2024 Tour Dates

7/18 – Indianapolis, IN – Rock The Ruins at Holliday Park
7/20 – Saint Paul, MN – Minnesota Yacht Club
8/2 – Saint Charles, IA – Hinterland Music Festival
8/3 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
8/4 – Chicago, IL – Metro – Lollapalooza Aftershow
8/8 – Ogden, UT – Ogden Twilight^
9/22 – Richmond, VA – Iron Blossom Festival
12/4 – London, UK – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

^w/ Killer Mike

pre order Flood HERE