Q&A: Milk & Bone Unveil “Forgone” and Announce Upcoming EP “Baby Dreamer”

MusicQ&A

Dec 10

INTERVIEW

MILK & BONE ISN’T HERE TO TIPTOE AROUND — Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin of Milk & Bone have a knack for crafting music that feels like a personal confession—intimate, raw and provocatively real. With the release of their latest single, “Forgone,” and the announcement of their upcoming EP, Baby Dreamer, the Montreal-based duo takes listeners on another emotionally charged journey through the intricate highs and lows of human connection.

Milk & Bone have always been masters of creating soundtracks for life’s most visceral moments. From late-night confessions to stolen kisses, their music embodies the emotional chaos that makes life thrilling and unpredictable. But with Baby Dreamer, the duo is shedding layers of polish to embrace a grittier, more electrifying sound.

Working alongside producer Micah Jasper, who previously collaborated with them on Chrysalism, Milk & Bone have tapped into their DIY spirit to deliver music that’s bold, direct, and uninhibited. “Forgone” captures the essence of what Milk & Bone does best—melding deeply personal lyricism with an irresistible sonic pull. The track pulsates with intimacy, layering minimalist synths with emotive melodies, creating a rich tapestry that feels like a late-night conversation turned confession.

This sonic shift sees Milk & Bone embracing imperfection in a way that feels refreshingly raw. Instead of chasing flawless production, the duo leans into the messy beauty of authentic emotion. The result is music that grabs you by the ears and refuses to let go.

With Baby Dreamer, Milk & Bone’s sound is unflinching, bouncy, and filled with sharp edges—an unfiltered glimpse into their creative process. It’s music that dares you to feel deeply, whether it’s the ache of longing, the thrill of connection or the sting of heartbreak.

Milk & Bone have always excelled at making the personal universal, and Baby Dreamer is poised to continue that tradition with even more audacity and honesty. By leaning into their renewed passion for creating vibrant, gritty music, the EP promises to explore themes of love, loss, and self-discovery with a boldness that matches its gritty production.

LUNA: Thank you for talking to Luna. Our readers would love to get to know you and your music more. For any readers who aren’t familiar with you yet, what inspires your artistic style and sound?

CAMILLE: I feel like being a duo, it's like, there's never like one specific thing. It's always very much the space that is in between everything that inspires both of us. We both get to contribute to our sound and visually and all of it. I think that's what makes it also hard to pin down the inspirations, because it's just a secret third thing of us coming together. I do think that we tend to write and to produce music that is quite nostalgic and infused with a lot of emotion, and some kind of despair. Also, sometimes I feel like we write to cope with stuff and explain our feelings to ourselves.

LAURENCE: I agree. I think we have this very special bond. We share a space where we know each other so well that we allow ourselves to be vulnerable with each other and tap into those raw emotions and deep feelings. It's a very intimate process and our songs are very intimate, and I have a feeling that this is why it speaks to people that they can relate to those stories, because it comes from a real place. In our creative process, our songs are from moments of raw emotions.

LUNA: What kind of atmosphere or emotional space do you aim to create for your listeners?

CAMILLE: I always feel when you start making music, there is that naivety or the innocence of not knowing what you're going to present in terms of space. It's just like, let's see how it happens. I remember people telling us that they felt really safe and they felt really seen with specific subjects that we would talk about that they didn't feel were being talked about in this kind of music. We're not afraid to talk about our sexual desire and things like that. I feel like as young women, that is something that we felt like we wanted to express, and I think ever since, we haven't shied away from expressing our feelings in a way that feels true to us, and it seems to feel true and safe for other people to navigate through as well.

LUNA: You just released your newest single for “Forgone.” What is the inspiration behind the single and what themes and emotions do you explore?

LAURENCE: I'm really happy. I'm really excited by this release. This one feels very special to us, in terms of what we talk about in the song is these moments that I know we both experience in different ways that we could relate to this feeling of feeling like you're not enough, or feeling like you're not cool. We both started working on the song and lyrics at the same time, but we hadn't talked about what we were going diving into, and it turns out that we were going for the same themes. I remembered a moment where I was giving a lot to people, and it was a week where people were busy and not available, and I felt very alone, and I felt uncool. I spiraled into those inner thoughts where I felt very, very insecure and uncool, and it wasn't necessarily rational at all. It's just something that was going inside me and was very, very present. I dove into these specific emotions to talk about that really uncomfortable couple of days.

CAMILLE: I think spiraling is really the term of this song, and when you start not knowing if you're being paranoid or not, and those thoughts start to circle and then you're mad that those thoughts are affecting how you're feeling and you're even more paranoid. When we started writing it, we both contributed from that feeling from different experiences, and that's what creates this entity that's between us.

LUNA: How do you stay grounded and focused when you’re experiencing these spiraling moments?

LAURENCE: I think for me, the thing that helps the most is to name these emotions and feelings. I have a really good circle of friends that I know that I can be vulnerable with and share those emotions with. When it happens, I keep them for myself. When it happens, I just live it, and then eventually it goes away and then people around me prove me wrong. I realized I was completely in my head. One thing that helps me is moving my body. And it sounds really stupid, but running and going to the gym or sports forces me to get out of my head, which is exactly what I need in these moments.

CAMILLE: I agree with the sense that the only thing that can help me in those situations is to just go for a menty b walk and then I'll rage walk, but then when I come back, I feel better. I'm an avoidant person to the core, so I was just going to say dissociate.

LUNA: Can you walk us through the creative process for “Forgone?” How did the song evolve from the initial idea to the final version?

CAMILLE: It's one of the songs that was almost at a final version so early on. I remember us knowing what kind of song we wanted to go for. And that's what I like with these songs, is that we don't want to do something specific. We don't want to talk about something specific, but we wanted to feel a certain way.

LAURENCE: Cami had this chorus part that makes it beautifully, and so perfectly with the rest. I think our previous album Chrysalism was classic in terms of the song structures, and then we decided to go in a completely different way for this one, where it doesn’t feel like a classic structure.

LUNA: The music video is just as intentional as the song itself. What is the inspiration behind the video and how was your experience filming it?

CAMILLE: I remember I was rage walking and I was listening to mixes of this song, because I couldn’t get myself to listen to mixes and get things done in a timely manner. The more I was listening to it, the more I realized that it needs to be something more visually. We see us walking and I thought of two friends having a completely different experience of that evening where one of the friends is out at a party, and the other one is spiraling at home and knows that her friend is at the party, but knows something about some people who are there that her friend doesn't know. So it's just the balance between I really want to avoid that space, but at the same time, I have someone I care about who's there, and I want to warn them about something that's there. We see Laurence being at the party, having the time of her life, and then me trying to go and warn her, and then the miscommunication happens and the release of the information, and then the friendship that goes back to its neutral form. We were so lucky. The director of the video is our manager's boyfriend. This is the kind of video that normally would take so many weeks to edit and get done. We shot and edited and color graded in a matter of a week and a half. We were so lucky to have such a close knit team with everyone just fully on board with the project. We're very happy. I feel like our videos in the past have been grand and very aesthetic. This is the first time we see ourselves in a little bit more of an acting angle.

LUNA: You have also announced your upcoming EP release Baby Dreamer. “Forgone” seems to delve into deep emotional layers. How does it connect to the themes of your upcoming EP?

CAMILLE: If you think of any of our albums or EPs, they don't necessarily narratively connect to each other, it's more of a feeling. It's not a concept EP, this is coming very much from our perspective of complex relations. I think the way that I would connect with the other songs is mostly sonically and the fact that we take a turn and go back to our indie roots a lot more and embrace that lo-fi and a little bit, like less heavily produced, which you can also hear on “Two (2) Little Mountains.” That was the first release from that, so the two other songs that are going to be revealed when the EP comes out follow the same creative direction as well. I think they are all very infused with emotion.

LAURENCE: It's a special EP because I feel like all of the songs have a different identity and a different role, but they still make a lot of sense to me together, but they all have something very different. I think the one thing that ties them all together, like you said, Cami, is this desire that we had to have less of a polished album, allow for imperfections there and minimal production. It's less clean than the previous album, which is something we wanted to do differently.

LUNA: How do you hope listeners will use Baby Dreamer as a soundtrack to their own personal experiences? What messages, emotions or experiences do you hope they can take away from the EP?

CAMILLE: When I'm driving, I have different playlists for different times of the day where I want to feel a certain way. I'm hoping that this is like an early evening, end of sunset into night time. That's the time of day that I want for them to have our company. I want to be there with them at that time of day with Baby Dreamer because I feel like songs like “Nectar” that are on Baby Dreamer are very bubbly and quite bright, but there's still this playfulness that I feel would connect well with a date that's going really well and you're getting cheeky about it. then there's some songs in there that are a lot darker, that can really accompany your walk from bar to bar, or from bar to home. Then there's “Dance Dirty” that can accompany make out sessions. I feel like it's a good soundtrack for anyone's life.

LUNA: Baby Dreamer will be your first big release since your Chrysalism record in 2022 and it seems more of a deeper dive into your artistic evolution. Have you experimented more or taken any risks – either lyrically, sonically or emotionally – with Baby Dreamer since your previous releases?

CAMILLE: It's a fun thing, because I feel like it was a risk to choose to go back to a more like Lo Fi version, you know, like we've, I feel like since the beginning of, like, our first record, we've moved, like, from very indie Lo Fi into cleaner and cleaner and more polished. And I feel like this is the first time, since the very beginning, that we're kind of, like, gonna revert to something. And I don't mean Yeah, as in, like, say no to something, but more kind of, like, continuing that evolution, but to grab all those things that I really miss and like the grit and like the rawness of the materials that we had on our first records, whether it be like synth wise or like vocal wise, so and that has to be something that we like, we intentionally. We're very intentional about for baby dreamer, I get really paid off. I'm like, really, really happy about that.

LUNA: What is your favorite song from Baby Dreamer? and why do you love this song? Is there a certain element, lyric or message that you gravitate towards the most?

LAURENCE: Honestly, “Forgone” for me is an anti-banger. It's not a classic banger, but to me, it's probably the most obvious banger on the album, and I love it. There’s a dark wave, retro wave direction to it. I can't stop thinking about this song live on stage and how fun it will be to sing together. It’s so special and raw.

CAMILLE: I’m going to say “Hands Dirty” because I feel like it’s the closest songs to our creative identity. It connects really well with everything and “Hands Dirty” is the sexy one.

LUNA: As you continue to evolve, what aspects of your artistry do you hope to push further in future projects?

LAURENCE: I'm really excited about us producing more and being hands on, on the production side of our songs much more, instead of bringing producers in the room too quickly, because we produce, we score things, we have the ability to do it. We've never tried to push ourselves to the max of our capacities. This is something we're going to try to do even more and see how it changes our sound in our upcoming releases. It’s nerve wracking, but very exciting at the same time. I'm really, really happy about that.

CAMILLE: Also what I think is so important, I feel like to stay on our toes and to put ourselves on the line. That's what's going to make people stay connected to the music, the way that we're going to stay connected to the music. And I agree with you, because, like Laurence said, we're composers and producers. We do projects from A to Z all the time, but I think it's the imposter syndrome of we've never done it for our own project. It's so stupid because sometimes I'm going to be in a room with male producers and they're going to come in with the confidence that I don't have, but I'm glad because sometimes that gives me the confidence of being like, ‘wait, I'm allowed to be more secure about my capacities than I am.’ We’re very set on having a very clear creative direction and we kept that, so I can't wait for what we do next to keep being even more involved.

LUNA: How are you feeling in this current era of your career and what does the upcoming year look like that you would like to share with Luna?

CAMILLE: It's a really good time. I feel like all the things that we just discussed about being involved in and being hands on, I feel like that was maybe something that I was missing in the past few years, and I haven't felt as excited about a project until this one. We have a new team and network, and then we have a new management. I feel like the freshness of new eyes and ears on the project as well. I'm thrilled. I'm also so happy with the response of the song so far. We have Baby Dreamer coming in January, and then we also have another project coming quite quickly after that, which I can't share with you yet, but that's very, very exciting. I feel like it's going to be a good year. I'm hoping we get on the road quickly as well. We love performing. We love to be on stage. These songs in particular are going to be so sick live. I'm just excited for whatever is to come.

LAURENCE: We recently scored a video game in which our song “Forgone” has also been featured, and it's quite a big release in the video game world. It’s fun for certain fans to know that our music is going to be in the game and that we scored the game.