Interview with Camylio

What inspired the title Take My Bones?

Camylio: “take my bones” is actually the title of a song off the album as well. I felt like the song itself sonically represented the rest of the album very well. But more than anything else, “take my bones” is a lyric of the chorus in that song. It represents devotion. The lyric is meant as giving yourself to someone, take all of me, take the bones that are left over. I want this, it's just short of obsession in that way. From the beginning, in like some of the toxicity you hear in the first songs. To the everlasting love and grounded beauty towards the end of the track list. I think across all of it, at the end of the day, the album is about love and giving yourself to a person. In the kind of way that you do that matures over time and finds yourself in a better place.

What was the creative process like for the album cover?

Camylio: The album cover itself and the photo used is actually from the very first photoshoot that I did with my creative director. We planned for a long time in terms of the kick-off and visual world for the album. Once we had done the shoot, more than anything else, we wanted me holding a guitar. That sounds like a small distinction, but in my previous music, for a long time, despite growing up as the guitar-playing kid. I was making a lot of music on piano, not that there's anything wrong with that. The music was about the song and my voice. My favorite part of this album is the song, voice and the musicality. There's so much guitar throughout. You really get to meet Camylio the musician. It was really important for us to maintain the aesthetic of everything, but to show me the way I want you to see me on stage one day.

What was the writing process like?

Camylio: Very long. The first songs were done at the beginning of 2024. The last ones weren't finished till the middle of 2025. A lot of life happens between those moments. And a lot of change even as an artist. I'm very grateful for the people I got to work with on this project. I did produce much of it myself, but my production partners for many of the songs really shaped and gave insight on what the project would become. Many songwriting sessions, a lot of one-on-ones, which is my favorite way to write. I think when you're one-on-one in a room with somebody, and you're just talking about your feelings. Sometimes, even having a third person there, unless you all find that kind of moment, can be putting this social mask on. But when you have one person you trust, and they're talented and excited to make a song. Maybe for a moment, you can both kind of forget that you don't know each other that well, or whatever it is, you can be really honest about your feelings. That was the process, a lot of writing over the course of over a year. Just a couple of brewing months of trying everything to make sure the songs felt perfect in production.

Is there a song on the album you’re most excited for fans to hear?

Camylio: Yes, I think it's one that's going to be a little different than people are expecting. It's a song called “strung out on you”. Over the course of the project, I've mentioned a lot of guitar playing throughout. The project blends like blues guitar into pop songs and structures. “strung out on you,” is the first time where it's a guitar song first. Like you're going to hear it in the first 10 seconds, it's racing down the highway kind of music. It's my favorite guitar part I've ever written and had a chance to play. It'll be a little different, but it'll be great. I'm very excited to play it live.

How would you describe this album in three words?

Camylio: I would say it is romantic, honest, and I think it’s imperfect in the sense that my favorite part about it is that, throughout, even in the most beautiful love songs, to the ones that are coming from a toxic place. I'm really proud of the way in which myself and my co- writers were able to express that I know that this is bad for me and not exactly how I should be playing this. Or when it is good and it is wonderful, love songs, the sense of anxiety and insecurity about how good it is. I think that imperfection is what people resonate with in different ways.