Hippo Campus performing at the Bristol Thekla (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever)
The five years since Hippo Campus was dreamt up by high schools friends wanting to ‘make their friends dance’ have cooled that carefree attitude.
“There was no real context to what we were doing, it was just total creative joy,” Zach Sutton has recalled upon the announcement of the band’s second album Bambi which, when it is released September 28th, will tell the story of greater self-reflection inspired by contemporary issues such as the #MeToo movement.
“That really made us take a look at how toxic masculinity has influenced the way we see ourselves and the world overall,” says Jake Luppen.
“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. Because if more men are able to do that, they might be less likely to express those feelings as anger or violence.”
Bambi was partly recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago and is the follow-up to 2017’s debut LP Landmark.
