![]() ![]() The general ethos when I walked in the room, everybody was in a really strange… It’s hard to say, but they were all slumped like, “I don’t know if I even want to be here today.” This was a Thursday, and we were picking songs on Saturday for the record. STEWART: I think “1 Last Cigarette” was the same way for me personally. We were sitting on that song, and as we came into what 2020 was, we were like, “Wow, this means even more now.” ![]() That was one of the songs that was written before quarantine actually, before any of this mess ever started. It was reminding me to be more appreciative. I remember being so happy after that because I felt like it was a pep talk to myself. “ Roses” is one of my favorite songs, one of my favorite writing sessions I ever had. When you’re writing, is it a cathartic process? Does it feel like therapy? These songs are all very self-reflective. We had the ability to get more into messages we haven’t previously spoken about in our songs. that song “ Look Up,” it’s more about taking your eyes off your phone and looking at the world that’s right in front of you and living in the moment. We just got to go down the rabbit hole on a lot of these ideas. It gave us time to explore ideas deeper and deeper. SPENCER STEWART: It would have been a completely different record have last year not happened, but it gave us time to explore. What was going on emotionally that seeped into this record? I feel like that was another benefit to the last year and making this album versus previous recordings. It gave us a lot of things to choose from and think through. ![]() So six months before we went down to El Paso to record, every single one of us, whether it was together or co-writing, was writing almost five days a week and just crunching them out. We spent the last year before we even got to the record knowing we’re probably going to do this, let’s all write. GARRISON BURGESS: I feel like this go around, we had way more songs to pick from. It’s more of a whole glimpse of the music we like and what we wanted to make. We definitely have a lot more room to breathe, and there’s balance. It was our first thing after signing a deal and our first major thing we did with our producer Jordan, and we wanted to come out with no snoozers, all just uptempo, in-your-face, heady songs for the album. JEFFREY JORDAN: tryhard, there are no ballads there are no slow moments. Full circle, it ended up having more meaning than we ever intended it to.” How was your approach to creating your debut different from previous releases like your EP tryhard ? “It was a happy accident that Camino means way or path in Spanish,” Jordan shares. That embrace of the full spectrum of their sonics seems to be a path they’ve been subconsciously heading down all along. What they arrived at were 14 tracks that confidently shift from sentimental ballads (“ Sorry Mom”) to rock revelries (“ 1 Last Cigarette”) and energetic pop romps (“ I Think I Like You”) without missing a beat. Read more: Pleasures founder Alex James shares brand mission & musical influences With a backlog of bittersweet, revelation-laced lyrics that came to the surface during lockdown, the trio started down a road of making the best music they could, without the distraction of the outside world. The band spent a little more than a month in the Texan desert, recording songs at Sonic Ranch while leaning into the undivided attention of producer Jordan Schmidt. “This album is the pinnacle of our existence.” “It’s been a long road to getting to where we are now,” Jordan explains. The energy from the other side of the screen feels humble, a little nervous, but mostly excited to share the truest version of themselves and their sound with the world. After six years together, initially cutting their teeth playing gigs in Memphis venues, the Band CAMINO (who first took on the moniker Camino because, as Jordan shares, “it would look good on a T-shirt”) recently released their first full-length.
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