People in the chat are showing you
guys so much love. They're like,
come to this place, come to
Vancouver, come to Chicago, come
to this place.
So very excited to have you on the
show today.
We want to start out by talking a
little bit about how you guys came
together, how you guys met.
I know that you guys met at the St.
Paul Conservatory for a performing
artist.
And you guys have a background.
Several of you guys in jazz
and opera wanted to know
how you guys kind of developed your
current sound because it's
very different.
Yes. Only he was at opera.
Uh-Huh.
Fantastic, by the way, you had a
full career ahead of you that you
threw for this.
Thank you.
A real jazz players.
He went to school for it.
But we came together.
You guys can swing.
You can swing.
Things swing.
Thank you. These cakes can swing.
Yeah, we we couldn't.
We couldn't play our own music at
school. So we just had to, like,
make our own bands outside of it.
And then we just sort of kept
jamming.
And for whatever reason, we didn't
write jazz tunes or
operas.
So we we just wrote like, what?
We liked it just it
was a lot of bad
songs, and then
we didn't think this was going to
happen. But thank you for having us.
So you talk about the high school
experience and being impacted by
that, but what would you
say kind of has led to you guys'
evolution nowadays and like the
things that you guys are most
inspired by and kind of inject into
your music now?
Wow!
Lot of different stuff.
Taxes, depression, I
All the grown up things that people
hate.
Custody
battles,
legal fees are through the roof.
We don't have any kids. Landscaping.
I guess
we're, I guess, working on our
own in our personal relationships.
You know, touring as
much as we did between 2015
and 2020,
there was a lot of fraught emotions
and turmoil
and just
sorting all that out, smoothing out
the wrinkles and
trying to be better friends to each
other and with each other, and,
you know, that's kind
of the number one goal,
I think day to day.
Let's talk about LP3
and just kind of how that was made.
I'm always curious about like the
writing, especially when it comes to
a band.
Jake, are you doing majority of the
writing or is it kind of a
contribution that all of you guys
like, I don't know, contribute
to or like, how does that work?
It's a fully collaborative process.
There are like songs that come in at
different points like
Ride or Die, for example, is
something that we wrote all the
rhythm together.
There's some other tracks where,
like, they were written out fully
before they came in and then they
change. But it's simply
not a thing like an entire song is
fully done and brought in and just
like printed.
I think the important part about
hippocampus is like each of us
writing our own parts and playing
our own thing.
So one of the questions that I had
asked, I
think I heard of you guys say that
like, I think it was Jake who said
he would never like, listen to
Landmark or something like that.
But I know for a lot of people,
that's their favorite album.
When you hear things like that, does
it make you or inspire
you to kind of go back and
tap into that sound at least
like maybe you're not listening to
it, but you've of course you guys
understand and know what the sound
on that was like.
Does it ever inspire you to tap into
that sound, or are you guys like
kind of forever pushing yourselves
forward to try new things?
I think that energy surrounding
Landmark was a really great period
of the band in terms of like our
relationships with each other and
how much time we spent writing songs
compared to Bambi.
So as far as the energy goes,
I think we try to capture that on
this past record and get back to
that space because Bambi was like,
honestly, kind of a mess to make
so energy wise.
Yeah, I think songwriting
wise, we're probably.
I feel like we're getting better and
better with each record.
That's just a goal of ours, always
to write the best possible songs.
So in terms of like swerving
expectations, I think it's just us
improving our craft over time
as we should.
And yeah, moving into every project.
We're just trying to push ourselves
as songwriters more and more.
I think there's also like a part of
who we are naturally as a group of
writers
on both of those projects,
obviously. So it's.
I'd say it's less of like going back
to that for influence and just kind
of trusting that like if we do what
we feel and know feels best.
That thing that you're talking
about. Going back and looking for
should and most likely will
show itself while we.
Create whatever is next.
And it seems to have always done
that, I feel like it's definitely
done that on this record, which is
kind of what you're talking. Yeah.
And I mean, that being said, like we
do love those albums.
It's not a thing where we like, hate
those songs or anything.
It's just sort of like seeing a
picture of yourself wearing an
outfit you wore six years ago and
you're like, Oh, my God, like, I was
wearing that with that.
But then in 10 years, that is
a cool thing to wear again, you
know, so it's just it's a matter of
like things are
coming back around to where you can
appreciate. Fedoras. Fedoras
will be back.
I hope
it wasn't someone in the chat.
Nader, eight to three, says
hippocampus is like mozzarella
sticks because I can't stop eating
either of them.
What? thank you.
The chair is going to him.
I was like, You can't stop eating
mozzarella or
sticks, God.
I'm confused.
I love it.
Juaquin Soto said all this new stuff
feels so different and experimental
while still having that underlying
vibe. That's so cool.
I think just the point of
experimentation
is pretty cool.
Is there a direction that you guys
want to go in in the future that
maybe you haven't done at all?
That kind of like scares you, but
you're interested in pursuing at
some point.
I mean, from day one, we always
talked about doing like an acoustic
album, a punk album,
like a cover album, just like a
bunch of weird stuff that
probably, hopefully will never
happen.
Christmas Christmas.
Oh yeah, yeah. We had this idea to
do a
Halloween Christmas album.
We're like, we
take we rewrite Christmas songs
to fit Halloween.
Like it's the spooky, spookiest
time of the
year.
Yeah. So yeah, it's like Christmas,
but that's all we got
right now. Yeah,
it's been a rough two years,
Let's move on to
lyrics against humanity.
So I don't know if you guys have
played cards against humanity
before. Have you guys?
Probably. Yeah, yeah.
So it's kind of like a cards against
humanities game
where I'm basically pulling some
lines from you guys lyrics from your
songs, and each of
you will have to fill in a blank
with a different word.
Now the word can be something
ridiculous, something funny,
something risque, educational.
It can be whatever word you
want.
But it has to make the the
line entertaining as entertaining
as possible.
And then the chat will vote on
who has the best word choice
in that in that line
of work.
OK, OK.
Yeah, yeah, awesome.
All right. So chat, we are counting
on you to vote
and we'll get started with this.
All right. From writer guy,
if you want to go outside for my
love, get by for my love.
You can see right
through me.
That's what I'm
talking about a roast
chicken.
Wait, so do we all say a word or we?
Yeah, you all say a word and then
chat decides which word makes the song more entertaining or the lyrics
more entertaining.
Oh, cool.
Can
it to be two words or does it just
have to be one?
idea why not. It's it's your game.
It's your game.
Why not
Birthday?
Breakfast. Soup
that is too hot.
OK, let's go to
Sierra Mist.
Yeah, I
like that.
I should have you guys like sing the
lyric with your word.
Can we do that?
Get by for my Sierra Mist.
If you want to go outside. If you want to go outside for my
Rush Limbaugh salt shaker.
Rush Limbaugh salt shaker?
Who won?
Is the poll live?
Poll is live. People are saying Sierra Mist. Let's see the results.
Sierra Mist is pulling away. Soup that is too hot is coming up close
though.
You guys are almost head to head,
should we have you guys sing?
What
is it?
I mean, I think Sierra Mist has got
it. Oh,.
OK. OK.
If you wanna go outside for my Sierra Mist, get buy for my Sierra Mist
you can see right through me.
And the crowd goes wild.
Let's go on to the next one.
So the next one is going to be you
guys doing it at the same time,
right?
I swear to God I wasn't born to
fight. Fight Is your word.
Maybe just a little bit and up to
make me sick of it.
Oh my God.
So counting from three, right?
Yeah. Three, two, one.
Tomboy, shit, Christmas shit.
Cowboy shit.
I swear to God I wasn't born to
shit. Maybe just a little bit.
Maybe just a little bit.
Enough to make me sick of it.
Maybe just a little bit. Enough to make me sick of it. Ding, ding, ding.
So for the very last, this is the
very last one.
So we need you to make it good.
I'm going to read it one more time
and I'm going to do your countdown.
No pressure.
I finally found my crocodile
drawings.
There were under your bed.
I finally found my three,
two, one.
Boreshead, box of dildos, bloody...
I heard bloody something, dildo
and something else.
Giant box of dildos.
I love it. Giant box of dildos.
Listen Hippo Campus you guys have been a joy to have on the show.