Entertainment Weekly once lauded Hippo Campus’ "shimmering pop-rock earworms,” which we’ve always like as a pretty good way of summing up their sound. Slick guitar melodies flit around tight, snappy percussion. This year, the band dropped a full-length (Landmark) and an EP (warm glow), each featuring the dazzling penchant for layered songwriting that they’ve shown us for a few years now. (Sandy)