“A love story between a Deer and a Truck that won’t stop trying to run it over.”

Hippo Campus have shared a new video for Doubt, taken from their second record, Bambi, which dropped last year.

The clip takes on a typical love story but turns it on its head. Director Tomson Lee lets us experience the array of emotions within such a succinct moment.

The band explains:

For ‘Doubt’ we wanted to create something that felt simultaneously grounded in the everyday, but also sort of unhinged and insane. Love is universal. Unfortunately falling in love with things that hurt you is universal too. But you know what isn’t? A deer giving a truck a lap dance.

The video’s director Tomson Lee also adds:

With this video, I wanted to take the song’s exploration of toxic relationships a step further. I was struck by the image of a Deer in headlights, falling in love with an oncoming Truck because it exudes some toxic-masculine sense of danger. Falling in love so quickly and intensely that she’d forget every instinct she’s ever had about her safety. Leaving herself completely at its mercy, unable to see past the warm glow of the present. Transfixed by its beauty. And the rest of the video came together from there — a love story between a Deer and a Truck that won’t stop trying to run it over.

Hippo Campus will hit up a pretty impressive tour around the UK and Europe next month that includes a date at London’s O2  Shepherd’s Bush Empire on February 21st.

February

14 – Manchester, O2 Ritz

15 – Glasgow, The Garage

16 – Newcastle, The Riverside

18 – Birmingham, Institute

19 – Dublin, Dublin Academy Green Room

21 – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

23 – Bristol, SWX

24 – Brighton, Concorde 2