Be Prepared to Listen to Hippo Campus on Repeat [stream]

Hippo Campus – Little Grace SoundCloud

Bubbling with sunshine and bursting with energy, Hippo Campus is a Minneapolis band of young men making the kind of indie rock that implores incessant repetition. There’s not a miss among the variety of songs on their fantastic debut EP, Bashful Creatures. The magic of Hippo Campus lies in pairing the smooth dips and dives of Jake Luppen’s soulful falsetto with the nimble-fingered precision of Nathan Stocker’s guitar lines that follow Luppen’s melody and gleefully extend into intricate riffs. Each song brings a distinct variation of this dynamite combo with added handclaps and sliding basslines for support. Above is “Little Grace”, the lead single from the EP and the track most likely to leave you humming arpeggios. The crisp production on the already cleanly orchestrated songs makes this collection even more vibrant. In the end of opener “Sophie So”, the boys chant, “You came back/You want it” over a buoyant guitar riff. It’s true — I can’t stop coming back for more Hippo Campus! Listen to all of their Bashful Creatures EP and download it for free on their Bandcamp.