Twin Cities’ Hippo Campus spits breezy pop numbers with some tough talking titles. The song writing is new millennium cool in its utter refusal to draw tired genre distinctions. But music writers must indulge: nu indie pop with shades of jungleglitch.

The vocals are double rainbows that make liberal use of falsetto. There’s a fascinating and dedicated embrace of complex percussive motifs on their latest full-length LP3 that rearrange your brain about 3 or 4 times per track.

Shades of Animal Collective, but less House and more Modest Mouse. Every once in a while that band sinks into a world music groove that exposes beautiful overseas influences.Shades of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot in terms of what they make of those influences.

Our highlighted track “Ride or Die'' is a hummable summer classic for beads-and-bluesky diehards.

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