“For a long time I was living with these indefinable worries that I couldn’t comprehend, and I was never really sure if it was just a part of a growing up or something more than that.” “That song came from something I’d written a while ago, kind of a scribbling of all my social anxieties,” says Sutton. On “Anxious,” urgent rhythms and untamed vocal delivery draw an unlikely power from raw vulnerability. Throughout Bambi, Hippo Campus match their relentless self-examination with a joyfully adventurous sonic approach, ultimately transforming the emotional experience of the problems they’re exploring. “I think we were all finally able to get more honest about things like mental health, and in my songs I interrogated my relationship in a way I’d never had the confidence to do before.” “When you craft a song from the ground up all on your own, it allows you to make it more personal and to write whatever you feel without holding back,” says Luppen. The band steered away from their formerly collaborative songwriting process, with Luppen, Stocker, Sutton and Allen each writing and demoing their material individually before bringing it to the table. “Plus there were a lot of late nights on this record, and when you’re in a dark room there’s nothing that sounds like a Juno-60. “We were getting sick of starting songs with riffs-we wanted to change it up and get out of our comfort zone,” says Stocker. And in sculpting Bambi’s distinctly inventive arrangements, Hippo Campus significantly expanded their use of drum machines and synth. Partly recorded at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago, Bambi finds Hippo Campus working again with producer BJ Burton (Bon Iver, Low, Francis and the Lights), who handled production on their 2017 full-length debut Landmark. “We’d much rather make community happen with our fans, which is the whole reason we started this in the first place." “Social media promotes this weird non-reality when it comes to artists and bands, where they get put up on a pedestal and treated like some kind of upgraded human,” says Stocker. Hippo Campus approached the making of Bambi with an eye toward the undoing of any distorted, social-media-fueled perceptions of the band. Because if more men are able to do that, they might be less likely to express those feelings as anger or violence.” “In the past we might have been apprehensive about being super-vulnerable, but now we’re more aware of how important it is to come forward about dealing with depression or anxiety. “That really made us take a look at how toxic masculinity has influenced the way we see ourselves and the world overall,” says Luppen. Not only driven by exacting introspection, Bambi was also shaped by cultural shifts, including the #MeToo Movement. The result is a selection of songs that drift into much darker terrain, but unfold with a frenetic yet fragile beauty that makes even the most painful moments feel glorious. Paul, Minnesota-bred band navigate that upheaval with deliberate self-reflection. The world around them warped into something bleak and unsteady, and reckoning with mental health issues became more and more crucial. “There was no real context to what we were doing-it was just total creative joy.”īut over the past five years, that context has shifted dramatically. “We were in high school and the main idea was, ‘Let’s start a band and make our friends dance,’” Sutton recalls.
When Hippo Campus formed in 2013, their intentions were pure and simple. (website) (facebook) (instagram) (twitter)
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