New Normal by Hippo

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.

This tune is the title track of the record, 'New Normal'. It's full of firsts for the band: first tune lead and written on flute, the first written completely remotely, and the first song written in the earliest days of covid lockdown. The uncertainty of that time certainly has fed into the tune, through the beguiling groove that oozes beneath the interwined horns.

Saxophones, synthesisers and drums go in, Hippo comes out.

Beefy electronic jazz.

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