VMP Magazine

Something special happens when old friends grow up without growing apart — something that sounds like The Long Way, The Slow Way, the first Camp Trash LP. Now in their 30s, singer Bryan Gorman and guitarist Keegan Bradford have been building a songwriting rapport in and out of bands since they met in high school in Southwest Florida, going on 15 years ago. Even as Bradford’s moved from the Sunshine State to Virginia, China and now Portland, Oregon, the two still spend hours on the phone going line by line, trading verses and debating what each song needs. “I’ve simply never considered writing music without Bryan,” Keegan told me in an email after Camp Trash released their pop-punk-leaning debut EP, Downtiming, last year. “It’s my favorite way to write music.”