Hippo Campus have released “Bang Bang,” the fourth single from their upcoming third studio album LP3, which arrives Feb 4 via Grand Jury Music. The cascading, silvery track poetically compares the lust-over-logic struggle of a long distance relationship to the bleakness of winter, featuring a crystalline synth line and driving, burnished guitar riffs. It’s accompanied by a trippy animated clip directed by multimedia artist Lachlan Turczan (Phoebe Bridgers, Blake Mills, Flock of Dimes).
“Bang Bang” follows the band’s charismatic late-night debut performing the “anthemic” (BB) “Ride or Die” on The Late Late Show with James Corden, which Corden deemed “brilliant.” “Ride Or Die” has already amassed 1.5 million streams across DSPs and follows successful singles “Semi Pro” and “Boys.”
On the track, Luppen says, “I was in a long-distance relationship for a long time and I knew that it wasn’t working. But instead of us talking about it, we ignored it. It was a situation where our attraction to each other caused us to neglect all the very logical issues that were at hand.”
In explaining his vision for the video, Turczan says, “The goal for this project was to create an abstract visual language that synchronized with the energy of this song. My inspiration pulls heavily from the pioneers of visual music in animation, namely artists like Oskar Fischinger and Len Lye. It was also a nice challenge to incorporate the feel of the album artwork into this piece so that everything exists as a ben-day halftone pattern on newsprint.”
2022 TOUR DATES
2/17 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee
2/18 – Chicago, IL – The Riviera Theatre SOLD OUT
2/19 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room
2/21 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant SOLD OUT
2/22 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
2/24 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
2/25 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl SOLD OUT
2/26 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz SOLD OUT
2/28 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
3/01 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
3/02 – New York, NY – Webster Hall SOLD OUT
3/04 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club SOLD OUT
3/05 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club SOLD OUT
3/06 – Boston, MA – House of Blues SOLD OUT
3/08 – Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre
3/09 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
3/11 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre
3/12 – Columbus, OH – EXPRESS LIVE!
3/29 – Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
3/31 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre SOLD OUT
4/01 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre SOLD OUT
4/02 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union
4/04 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
4/05 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SODO
4/06 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre
4/08 – Oakland, CA – The Fox Theater
4/09 – Pomona, CA – Fox Theater
4/10 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park SOLD OUT
4/12 – Los Angeles, CA – The Hollywood Palladium
4/13 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
4/15 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
4/16 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
4/17 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
4/19 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
4/20 – Oklahoma City, OK – Jones Assembly
4/21 – Omaha, NE – The Admiral
4/23 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
5/6 – Manchester, UK – Academy 3
5/8 – Glasgow, UK – G2
5/9 – London, UK – The Garage SOLD OUT
5/10 – Antwerp, BE – Trix
5/11 – Cologne, DE – Jaki
5/13 – Amsterdam, NL – Bitterzoet