HIPPO CAMPUS - FLOOD (2xLP/CASSETTE)

INDIE EXCLUSIVE CLEAR GALAXY 2xLP, EDITION OF 3,000 or YELLOW CASSETTE. "Hippo Campus’ singer Jake Luppen had been listening to the band’swork as they rolled around the country, trying to tease out how muchwork remained. All of it, he soon decided. Obfuscated by the need tosound sophisticated and the overwhelming ambition to make thebest Hippo Campus LP ever, a deeper and more profound recordthat reflected how their lives were changing. But Luppen and all ofHippo Campus decided they didn’t actually like what they weremaking.So they called an audible. They were going to start over. And threemonths later, 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 mak