In 2020, whilst the world ground to a halt Hippo got to work, with late night jams over zoom birthing a beefy new album ‘New Normal’ set for release in Spring 2023. The phrase new normal emerged at the start of the global pandemic, with the realisation that things would never be as they were before. Not just in global health, but in the political rhetoric, environmental demise, and across borders and international relations. A new normal also brings the promise of hope - we may not return to as we once were, but perhaps we can make changes for the better…

The music on ‘New Normal’ examines the world through this lens, and features heavy collaborations, earnest melodies and a tangle of enticing grooves, stirred into the trio’s bubbling froth of textures and tones.

As this tune emerged, right from the earliest moments we knew that it really wanted to be carried by a captivating vocal; which was to be a new avenue of exploration for Hippo. Gina Marie Tratt was right at the top of the list of guest voices to work with on this, so we were very pleased she said yes! Expectations were totally exceeded when we got the first demos back from Gina in the middle of lockdown, and ever since then we’ve been itching to release it!

Gina is the brilliant front woman of Pocket Sun and pebbl, as well as a whole galaxy of creative endeavours from psychedelic animations, digital illustration and videography.
lyrics
We try to find something
We can relate to
I fall asleep when you’re awake
But we speak in the silence
Understand my mistakes your pain
Illustrated in our patience
So i float my thoughts past you
Send my trouble through you

You can say what you want to say
But i can see something underneath it
Virtually and internally
It’s another way of thinking

We break in two
Yet somehow it powers me
You place your lucky charms covering your scars

Doused in the fumes thrown to the fire
When everything becomes magnified
(I see you all around me)
Repercussion on our side
(We move in circles for our love)
Our eyes docile
Maybe we send each other blind

I could easily invite you in
But still there’s something underneath
Virtually and internally
It’s another way of thinking

We break in two
Yet somehow it powers me
You place your lucky charms covering your scars
You’re complete with me
Was never a certainty
I feel the hurricane but we will never change
We break in two
Yet somehow it powers me
You place your lucky charms covering your scars
You’re complete with me
Was never a certainty
I feel the hurricane but we will never change

I could never be
Another
Another
I could never be
Another
credits
released February 3, 2023
Written by Doug Cave and Gina Marie Tratt
Produced by Doug Cave
Mastered by Bill Sellar // TruPeak Audio

Lucky Charms feat. Gina Marie Tratt

First single off the debut EP from Hippo

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Recorded by Jim Barr at J&J Studios
Mastered by Luke Burnet-Smith

Gromet

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Recorded by Jim Barr at J&J Studios
Mastered by Luke Burnet-Smith
Additional Bass Sax by Ben Plocki

Wireless

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Recorded by Jim Barr at J&J Studios
Mastered by Luke Burnet-Smith

Alun I

Alun II

Georgia

DAK, single from our 2nd EP (EP release in November 2019).

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Written and Produced by Doug Cave
Recorded by Jim Barr at J&J Studios
Mastered by Luke Burnet-Smith

Hippo is Doug Cave, Toby Perrett and Henry 'Bin' Binning. DAK features a guest solo from guitarist Joe Price, and was inspired from a piano nugget by Holyseus Fly.

DAK (feat. Joe Price)

Treehouse, single from our 2nd EP (EP release in November 2019).

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Written and Produced by Doug Cave
Recorded by Jim Barr at J&J Studios
Mastered by Luke Burnet-Smith

Hippo is Doug Cave, Toby Perrett and Henry 'Bin' Binning.

Treehouse

Treehouse, single from our 3rd EP (EP release in November 2019).

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Written and Produced by Doug Cave
Recorded by Jim Barr at J&J Studios
Mastered by Luke Burnet-Smith

Hippo is Doug Cave, Toby Perrett and Henry 'Bin' Binning.

Binary Diet

Thirst, from our 2nd EP (EP release in November 2019).

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www.facebook.com/hippobristol
www.instagram.com/hippobristol/
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Written and Produced by Doug Cave
Recorded by Jim Barr at J&J Studios
Mastered by Luke Burnet-Smith

Hippo is Doug Cave, Toby Perrett and Henry 'Bin' Binning.

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