Returning to form doesn’t seem to make sense for a band that’s constantly reinventing itself, but a push into even further experimentation turned out to be the crucial moment. “We honed into the production side of things hard and got pretty far away from what was at the core of our band but with this record, we’re trying to return to form.” “We’ve had to access the songwriting that we had at the beginning of the band and capitalize on what brought us together in the first place a love of the kind of music that only we can make,” Luppen elaborates. Maintaining your sense of individuality while literally being a product was really fucking difficult.” That struggle for us was injected into every decision we made as a band and it got really hard to all feel united. In the past, the album processes have been divisive for us because we were struggling to find our place. As Stocker continues: “More people, more egos – the bigger the family, the harder it is to coordinate everything going on. The merging of multiple minds has proven a complex challenge in the past, with debates behind the scenes cramping the safe feel of the long-term collective. “Obviously, pushing ourselves musically has always been a goal, but having clearly defined what we’re looking for within ourselves and this fucked up industry that we’re in… Being able to apply that to our songwriting and the image of the band has helped to distill the essence of ourselves as individuals within that entity.” “We’ve spent a lot of time internally dissecting what we want, why we’re doing what we’re doing and how we’re doing it,” lead guitarist Nathan Stocker adds. However, it’s not just the lyrical themes that have become more truthful to the band behind them, nor is this restricted to the sonic tone throughout – a reevaluation of the core ethos driving Hippo Campus’ momentum was the key trigger. I feel like I’ve grown a lot and I need to put that in song form a lot of people go through these things, but not a lot of people have a platform to talk about them.” “It’s been tough to do that in a lot of ways, but I have to decide that I’m making shit that actually matters. “With these ten songs, I hit the comfortability point that I’ve always felt in the past, but chose to just run with it,” frontman Jake Luppen comments. Dominated by a cathartic riff, the loud way in which this self-analysis manifests itself gives an immediate insight into the writing process. Aptly titled LP3 – no, seriously – their third full-length release finally evidences a state of self-acceptance for the five-piece.Īlthough every project from the Minnesotan indie rockers tends to be a curveball for listeners, LP3’s lead single “Boys” touched a new level of vulnerability with reflections of sexuality, mental state and creative burnout exposed against a backdrop of swelling instrumentals. Landmark was the result of angsty teens striving to make their friends dance, and then the group felt they had something to prove with the twisted introspection of Bambi.
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