The Daily Spin II

The Band CAMINO | My Thoughts On You

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: My Thoughts On You (2016)

Artist: The Band CAMINO

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Occasionally, I like to indulge that part of me that yearns for the college days - not so much the recurring dreams that I slept through a final or went to class naked, but the part that craves the easily-found companionship, the endless summer days - that’s the stuff that I come back to, especially in the dreary false spring-forever winter that the Midwest gets every February and March.

The Band CAMINO are the flagbearer in my mind of that sound - Californian indie pop, slick surf rock tinged with the electronic heartbreak of the modern era. In an era so defined by its indecision, CAMINO make the call to play exactly to that - they never quite stick to any one formula, and it works brilliantly. 2/14 shines on the more synthetic range, while other songs like My Thoughts On You dance in shimmering pop gauze to wild and often wondrous effect.

As the record progresses, so too do the rock influences, and it’s with this shift that I think the record drops in quality a bit. It’s still good, but the wheelhouse is clearly on the beachier side of the road, and with every passing song a little of that luster sheds.

Rating: 8/10

Best Tracks: 2/14

Worst Tracks: Free of Charge