The Band Camino Talks New Album ‘The Dark,’ Growing Together & More – Billboard

The Band Camino are of their therapeutic period, whether or not they actively notice it or not. Relating to romantic relationships, the Nashville-based trio have been identified of their music to be self-deprecating and even admit to unhealthy patterns for the sake of affection.

However their sophomore album, The Darkish, regardless of its title, seems totally different. On “Identical Web page,” singer and guitarist Jeffery Jordan lets go of a relationship that appears good on paper, however issues aren’t as they appear. On “Novocaine,” Spencer Stewart (vocals, guitar) permits himself to open again as much as love — even when he looks like he wants one thing to numb the concern. On “Let It Occur,” the boys do as they are saying and let life come to them as it is going to.

“This album feels extra mature,” Jordan tells Billboard, with Stewart agreeing and including, “It’s one other yr of life and we’ve been trusting ourselves much more.”

And whereas the romantic and psychological themes of the album come from a extra mature headspace, so does the music. The group took the emotion-filled lyricism and infectious hooks that followers love and “refined it,” as Jordan notes, with the ultimate end result diving deep into what a therapeutic coronary heart looks like, encompassed with modern guitar riffs and swelling drum beats to assist dance via the emotional rollercoaster of musical remedy. The Darkish paints the image of a band who’s the truth is the identical web page, because the aforementioned music title seeks.

“I really feel like once we first began out and we received our document deal, we had been so immersed in the entire whirlwind of it,” drummer Garrison Burgess remembers, “However we determine how we work collectively higher as time goes on as a result of we’ve gotten to know one another and longer. We are able to undergo exhausting issues in our personal lives, and get to reside collectively via one another’s particular person hardships.”

Jordan playfully provides, “If we didn’t like one another, this may be so much tougher.” He then takes a extra critical tone, persevering with, “We lucked out with compatibility, for positive. It’s exhausting to seek out it with individuals whom you’re touring with, creating with and within the studio with on a regular basis.”

Stewart affords that the trio “talk very well,” as could be seen on essentially the most fundamental stage in how coherent their albums at all times sound. “When you recognize, you recognize,” he says of his bond together with his bandmates.

Whereas chatting with The Band Camino, one matter that comes up regularly is the strain of a sophomore droop after a profitable 2021 self-titled debut that featured lasting hits together with “I Assume I Like You” and “Tune About You.”

“In case you begin occupied with a sophomore album within the incorrect means, it might probably f— you up,” Jordan admits, earlier than Stewart chimes in to consolation his longtime good friend and musical collaborator, marking yet one more indication of the group’s emotional synchronicity.

“Development is rarely linear ever,” Stewart assures Jordan, including, “It may be powerful to have that strain to be sure you at all times achieve order. You don’t wish to fail and fall out of individuals’s eyes after which go on to make your greatest work on the third one however it’s too late.”

Jordan rapidly finds grounding within the dialog, as soon as extra proving his psychological and emotional development over the previous couple of years. “The strain does power me to consider why I like doing what I’m doing,” he concludes. “It pulls me out of the numbers sport and the success sport and the Instagram consideration sport. I take into consideration the truth that I began this as a result of I used to be in my bed room, enjoying my piano and it made me really feel one thing.”

As we wrap our dialog, it turned abundantly clear how a lot digging into The Darkish stepped the Band Camino instantly into the sunshine. The Darkish is out August 11 through DBLBLK Data/Elektra Data.