Hippo Campus- LandmarkLabel: Grand Jury Released 2017 "There's a moment in growing up when it becomes clear that the road you walk is your own to cultivate." A surprisingly profound sentiment for a band of 21 year olds. Nevertheless, it's a sentiment that animates much of the BJ Burton (Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso) produced Landmark, the debut album from Minneapolis' Hippo Campus. From the resplendent "Way It Goes," a guitar led gallop about the Instagram filtered church of

The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul

The PIXIES' 1988 full-length debut Surfer Rosa fulfilled the promise of Come On Pilgrim and

the album is crammed with crowd pleasers

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and drummer Dave Krusen to form PEARL JAM in 1990

acoustic guitar and the occasional piano accompaniment

by paranoia

The LA-based band don't blunt the impact of the themes they work through in their ferocious

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Minneapolis historian and radio host Andrea Swensson

and while the record isn't tied together by a specific theme