Hippo Campus – Unveil new video for single Violet + February tour announced
HIPPO CAMPUS
Unveil New Video For Single ‘Violet’
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New February Tour Announced
‘South’ EP Out Now On Transgressive Records
Hippo Campus have unveiled their luminous new video for single ‘Violet’ directed by Connor Gilhooly. (Alvvays, Gengahr, Songhoy Blues). ‘Violet’ – taken from the band’s acclaimed ‘South’ EP and available now on Transgressive Records – is a song about rebellion and discontent with American culture and its ideals. The whimsical video blends melancholy sweetness and gentle humour to highlight the unobtainable American dream. It will get under your skin and into your head, and you won’t want it to leave.
Premiered on Radio 1 by Huw Stephens, ‘Violet’ (produced by Low’s Alan Sparhawk) will also feature on the upcoming ‘Halocline’ EPs release – available November 20th – which combines all songs from debut ‘Bashful Creatures’ and more recent extended player ‘South’.
It’s another exciting step for a brilliant young band that are quickly becoming darlings in the UK. Previous efforts ‘Suicide Saturday’ and ‘South’ have seen them named Huw Stephens ‘Single Of The Week’ and led to sessions for BBC Radio 1 and XFM, whilst The Guardian, NME, DIY and Q have all marked Hippo Campus out as an act to seriously keep an eye on.
Violet also marks something of a milestone in a year that has seen Hippo Campus evolve from playing packed shows in their hometown of Minnesota to touring both sides of the pond with the likes of; Modest Mouse, Walk The Moon, Real Estate and My Morning Jacket. Explosive performances at SXSW – the band ended the festival with a live appearance on US talk show Conan – The Great Escape and Reading & Leeds festivals have further set the band out as definite ones to watch for 2016. Hippo Campus have been confirmed for the Little Comets tour.
Hippo Campus are four Minnesotan boys making music that is infectious, joyful, and thematically soaked with the sense of cynicism accompanying the youthful search of self-meaning.
UK LIVE DATES w/ Little Comets
Fri 12 – Leeds Wardrobe
Sat 13 – Edinburgh Electric Circus
Sun 14 – Liverpool Academy 2
Mon 15 – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Wed 17 – Norwich Open
Fri 19 – Bath Komedia
Sat 20 – Oxford Academy 2
Sun 21 – Brighton Concorde 2
HIPPO CAMPUS SHOP
iTunes ‘South’
Limited Edition 12″ ‘South’ (Available 20th November)
Combined CD ‘South’ & ‘Bashful Creatures’ (Available 20th November)
PRAISE FOR HIPPO CAMPUS
“Future Island’s enthusiastic kid brothers” Guardian
“An infectious amalgam of Brit-indie influences and afro-pop charm” NME
“Literate indie-pop with a smattering of Afrobeat- influenced shuffling” Q
“Young geniuses… doing it and they’re doing it right, making their dreams become reality at a rapid pace.” Nylon
“Hardly out of high school, Hippo Campus create catchy indie pop rock as though they’ve been playing long past their teenage years.” Interview Magazine
“Raw enthusiasm and adolescent energy mixed in with a touch of generational defiance and youthful bluster.” Indie Shuffle
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