That particular song made it clear to me at least that Hippo Campus had mastered the “build” of a song. The Halocline features a minute long intro and soundscape build before introducing growling vocals and grim verse lyrics, slowly going into a headbang-worthy chorus. This is something different than what we’ve seen from Hippo Campus, specifically in comparison to “The Halocline” off of the South EP. A personal favorite lyric of mine is, “but what good is truth if you don’t understand? / Nothing but a pad of calloused hands.”īoyish opens with a horn rendition of the chorus melody, quickly building into the first verse with vocals placed at the front of the mix and light guitar and driving drum accompaniment throughout until the horns kick back in at the chorus. Overall, Boyish brings novel and occasionally raw lyrics we’re used to from Hippo Campus, including the abstract and in-cognizant yet striking line wrapping up the chorus, “all we ever knew is what we didn’t”. This is illustrated through lines such as “daddy’s coming home but momma’s looking guilty,” and “blowjobs heavy with the weight of the world, / stowing all his love in an adolescent girl”. Continuing to form artistic speculations on childhood and adolescence introduced to listeners in freshman EP Bashful Creatures, Boyish sentimentalizes the bleaker aspects of growing up. Lyrically, Boyish brings us new ideas as well. New single Boyish sounds like luminous energy-filled daybreak and aspects of Hippo Campus we know and love- lively guitar-driven melodies, coy background vocal riffs, and soft yet driven vocal lines given to us by front man Jake Luppen, while introducing more brass instrumental parts to their sound. After a tweet of a silent video clip of an apricot tree captioned “tomorrow”, at last, this Tuesday, October 11th, ravenous listeners were given a taste of new music. Joking hints of an album being dropped via MySpace, tweets asking for likes with the promise that the band might “do something you want us to do”, and a nine-post Instagram spree of a captionless sunset orange gradient (which we would later discover is a likely reference to new single “Boyish” lyric, “sunlight drippin’ off the apricot tree”) have taunted eager followers, getting increasingly cheekier in the past few weeks. Since the release of the South EP over a year ago, reports of new music from four-piece Minnesotan band Hippo Campus have been a cyber rollercoaster for fans.
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