Alternative rock fans are getting revved up for The Band Camino’s upcoming show in Fort Wayne.

The trio of Jeffrey Jordan, Spencer Stewart, and Garrison Burgess embarked on their The Taking Shape tour this month. On Friday, July 26, the trek makes its way to The Clyde Theatre with Knox opening the show up.

New Approach

The tour comes on the heels of the band’s recent EP release of Bruises, featuring the single “Nostalgia.”

“Fresh starts are hard to come by when you’ve been a band for nine years and almost all of your 20s, but this release truly feels like one,” the band said in a statement. “Honestly, for a while it felt like we were chasing something. Having a fan base and any amount of success puts this pressure on your art, and it’s easy to start chasing and predicting what you think people are going to like. But in this next chapter we’ve decided we aren’t chasing anything at all — just expressing.”

The three-song EP comes on the heels of 2023’s The Dark, which featured “Told You So,” “What Am I Missing,” “Last Man in the World,” and “See You Later.”

While that album guided fans through a trek into darkness, Bruises carries a different vibe.

“Making these songs and this EP brought us together in a way we haven’t felt in a long time honestly,” they said in a collective statement. “We took the process back to the place we started as a band and wrote and arranged the songs in a live rehearsal setting to truly create them together with instruments in our hands.”

That process included old-school recording.

“Making music in 2024 has mostly turned into sitting in front of a computer, so we really put in effort to make music with no computers in sight until it was time to hit the studio with a fully-fleshed out arrangement,” they said. “We tracked everything live as a band and left the takes as raw as we could. Our live show has always been what we’re most proud of, so we really just wanted to capture that in these recordings and not over complicate or overproduce anything. A touch more humanness, imperfectly perfect.”

Gaining traction

Prior to feeling any pressure to create, The Band Camino formed in 2015 as Jordan and Spencer were University of Memphis students with Graham Rowell and Andrew Isbell.

They released the EPs My Thoughts on You in 2016 and Heaven in 2017.

Shortly after Heaven’s release, Isbell departed the band and was replaced by Burgess on drums.

The band caught the attention of Elektra Records, who signed the band in 2019 and released the tryhard EP the same year.

While this should have been a good time for the band, Rowell was dismissed from the group amid sexual misconduct allegations.

Forging ahead, they released their debut full-length self-titled album in 2021. On the strength of singles “Roses,” “1 Last Cigarette,” “Sorry Mom,” and “Know It All,” the group’s fan base continued to grow.

By the time of The Dark’s release in 2023, The Band Camino were playing Bonnaroo Music Festival and embarking on a headlining tour.

Now, you’ll get your chance to see this band described as electropop.