Dent May - The Big One

Released 14th August 2026

There is an ecstatic melancholy in Dent Mays music. The bedroom pop auteurs songs are both bittersweet and exuberant, breaking your heart while you cant help but sing along. Over six albums, May has built a wildly diverse discography spanning 17 years. He has typically worked alone, assembling perfect pop gems on his laptop, playing nearly every instrument himself. But when he began preparations for his new album, Mays tried and true process suddenly felt stale.

The Big One brings together both the scrappy DIY ethos of Elephant 6 Collective and early The Magnetic Fields with Mays lifelong affinity for the great 70s singer-songwriters like Harry Nilsson and Ram-era Paul McCartney. The songs balance a clear-eyed view of the world with a cautious optimism, looking at the everydayexperiences of disappointment and heartbreak with a sense of possibility for the good that may still come. Things might seem bleak, May tell