![]() ![]() The suburban kids in Hippo Campus are getting to know the streets of Minneapolis. Saturday’s show at 7th Street Entry with “secret openers” sold out weeks ago. That’s a lot of attention for a quartet that’s just getting around to hosting a release party for its debut - a six-song EP titled “Bashful Creatures” that’s the most perfect, ceaselessly blissful, no-filler local album of the year. At the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ Third Thursday party in September, the quiet museum courtyard came alive with teens dancing between the sculptures. The positives since then have included: write-ups by NME and Interview magazines a second-place showing in City Pages’ Picked to Click poll a best-new-music pick on Spotify steady airplay on 89.3 the Current a management deal with the team behind Trampled by Turtles, Low and Lizzo, plus a string of steadily exciting gigs, mostly at all-ages events.Īt the Vita.mn August Music & Movies series in the Lake Harriet Bandshell, young fans swarmed the stage and demanded an encore. Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts a year behind the other three. “Hey, that sounds like ‘Little Grace,’ ” bassist Zach Sutton coyly interjected, naming Hippo Campus’ own radio hit to address the elephant in the room at the Bad Waitress cafe.Īn overabundance of Vampire Weekend comparisons is about the only bad thing that has happened to Hippo Campus since June, when Sutton - the quartet’s youngest member at 18 - graduated from the St. As he explained the pros and cons of attending a performing arts high school, Hippo Campus guitarist Nathan Stocker’s train of thought was derailed by an all-too-familiar tune that came over the restaurant speakers: Vampire Weekend’s “A-Punk.”
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