Music Feeds’ Love Letter To A Record series asks artists to reflect on their relationship with the music they love and share stories about how it has influenced their lives. Here, Sydney/Gadigal-based emo-pop stalwarts Forever Ends Here share their love for The Band CAMINO‘s 2023 LP ‘The Dark’.
It comes as the local trio officially step back into the spotlight with ‘I’m Still Trying To Find Myself’, their introspective, future-facing new EP dropping this Friday. While the trio’s legacy as one of Australia’s most beloved 2010s pop-punk acts will always be tattooed into their DNA, this record marks a bold new chapter, one that honours their teenage beginnings while fully owning who they are now. As frontman Luke McChesney puts it, it’s “a nostalgic homage” to the kids who started the band 14 years ago, and a declaration of where they’re heading next. Pre-save that EP here, or read Forever Ends Here’s love letter to The Band CAMINO’s ‘The Dark’ down below.
Forever Ends Here – ‘About It’
Forever Ends Here: “The Band CAMINO’s ‘The Dark’ is the perfect record that came at the perfect time in our lives. It blends influences from so many artists, genres and eras that we hold so close.
Forever Ends Here has traditionally been a pop punk band at its core, but throughout our hiatus we explored pop side projects and fell further in love with the art of a great topline – something that the Band CAMINO can’t be faulted on.
When we reformed in 2023 we knew that we wanted our new music to feel nostalgic but with a modern sensibility. Catchy melodies, clean production and an energy that makes you wanna drive along the freeway with the windows down and the volume up. Enter: The Dark. It’s hard to put into words how this record made me feel on first listen. Understood? Inspired? Mesmerised? Nostalgic? The same way I felt hearing All Time Low or Fall Out Boy for the first time at 10 years old? All of the above. It’s like they took 11 brilliant pop songs and gathered a bunch of musicians and producers from punk backgrounds to inject them with steroids. Every song on this record could soundtrack a 2010 coming of age movie and that’s EXACTLY the energy that we want to bring to the new era of FEH.
From the triumphant group vocals on “Save My Life,” to the syllable-packed chorus of “Novicane” that sounds like a response to “See Through” (the song that made us fall in love with the Band CAMINO in the first place) every song fills a different corner of our pop-reformed-emo hearts.
This record has soundtracked so many pivotal moments in our lives. The singles were dropping as we traveled the country on our 2023 reunion tour. The album filled our new home as myself and Maverick moved in together and set up the home studio that kick-started most of the new EP. It lived in my wired headphones as I traveled between studios in LA. It was there throughout my breakup and helped to articulate the process of healing. It soundtracked late nights in London and train rides to Paris.
The Dark played a special role in reigniting the spark that launched Forever Ends Here to the world once more and we’ll always love The Band CAMINO for that. A nostalgic yet seemingly timeless body of work. The Dark; thank you for all you’ve given us.”
Further Reading
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