Hippo Campus announce their fourth studio album, Flood

Flood is a record and a rebirth, in which the Minnesotan band relinquished five years of work to ultimately capture 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.

The same night that Hippo Campus celebrated their previous LP3, they found out someone they loved had unexpectedly passed. The whiplash of adulthood was amplified by the effects of death, dejection, addiction and anxiety, so they committed themselves to the overwhelming ambition of creating something profound and life-changing. They got sober together, maintained their regular routine of group therapy, wrote more than 100 songs, took a step back and suddenly realised they didn’t actually enjoy what they were making.

They cleaned the slate and dropped all preconceptions of how they thought they had to sound, stopped themselves from trying to force out a so-called masterpiece, and committed each other to cutting what they all liked best: no second guessing or listening back, only a mantra of forward momentum. Less than two weeks later, singer Jake Luppen, guitarist Nathan Stocker, drummer Whistler Allen and bassist Zach Sutton emerged with Flood.

Speaking ahead of 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.”

The new single follows recent releases, "Tooth Fairy" and "Everything At Once".

Tracklist:

1. Prayer Man
2. Paranoid
3. Fences
4. Everything At Once
5. Flood
6. Corduroy
7. Slipping Away
8. Brand New
9. Tooth Fairy
10. Madman
11. Forget It
12. Closer
13. I Got Time