Stream "Falling in Love With Being Alive", the Brand New Album by Glasgow, UK Indie Rock Duo Hippy
Indie rock duo Hippy formed in September 2019. Paul and Hugh met via a mutual acquaintance in Glasgow and hit it off musically and personally. A studio was duly booked by October '19 with the boys recording and releasing their first single 'Aries Girl'. Subsequent songs and releases Feelgood, Junkyard Babies and Volunteer were released thereafter in early to mid '20.
Paul is an established singer songwriter within the Glasgow community and beyond and has played many gigs building up a solid following of his own. Hugh is an experienced player of many years with a background in touring, live, studio and writing within the blues, rock and indie genres.
An album 'Behind Every Song Is A Story' was released to critical acclaim in October 2020. The band also received national radio airplay via Billy Sloan at his BBC Radio Scotland show with Billy regularly playing the band on his Saturday night slot. The band have also received local airplay throughout the UK on various stations and podcasts.
Hippy have just dropped their new full-length album "Falling in Love with Being Alive", out on major platforms. The new album covers a wide gamut of heartfelt emotion and formidable human experience.
Speaking about the new release, Hippy says, ‘Falling In Love With Being Alive' is an album of so many different layers. It covers hope, fear and both the greatness and absurdity of life, living life and ultimately death. It tackles the pain of anxiety and also longs for comfort.
Paying respect to deaths of different generations whilst remaining loyal to the writers' musical foundations - it has been made with artistic freedom, honesty and integrity.
This album and the previous one 'Behind Every Song Is A Story' (released October '20) is the culmination of two musicians, their influences and talents meeting by chance in Glasgow in 2019. Prior to that they had no prior knowledge of one another. What has been built upon not even in the space of 2 years is a testament to the adage of never giving up.
The inspiration for many songs on the new album were inspired by love, hate, regret, anger, mourning, sadness, happiness, the blues, melancholy. Every song on this album can trace its roots somewhere back to those in some way. The music is honest and heartfelt and never trying to be something it isn't. And played with fire and passion and totally from the heart too.
Listen to “Falling in Love With Being Alive” below, and connect with Hippy on their social media.