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Dent May
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
Dent May
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I Remember... — played 2026-08-20
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Dent May — I Remember...
Played: 2026-08-20 (Daily Music Report)
Daily Music Report (Michael Lutjen): 'I Remember…' is a fast-paced, upbeat pop-rock song that looks back on a past relationship through bittersweet memories of rooftop parties, late nights, and waking up on the living room floor — lead single from his newly released album The Big One via Carpark Records. The video single (video out 25 June 2026) comes from Dent May's brand-new album The Big One, released 14 August 2026 on Carpark Records (CAK188), the week it hits. The title references 'the long-anticipated natural disaster,' and May has made the mortality angle explicit: 'The biggest of the big ones is, of course, death... in the face of knowing that everything will come crashing down sooner or later, are you going to be okay?' Critics framed The Big One as his L.A. answer to Randy Newman's doomsday wit — 'the next environmental disaster that could see his adopted hometown of L.A. slide into the sea.'
Sources: Bandcamp · Carpark Records · Northern Transmissions · Daily Music Report
Dent May
Origin: Jackson, Mississippi, US (based Los Angeles) · born May 6, 1985 · active
Members: Solo artist (real name James Dent May Jr.)
Genre: Indie pop, psychedelic pop, chamber pop
Discography:
A Brush with Velvet (2007) — self-released
The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (2009) — Paw Tracks
Do Things (2012) — Paw Tracks
Warm Blanket (2013) — Paw Tracks
Across the Multiverse (2017) — Carpark Records — first Carpark release
Late Checkout (2020) — Carpark Records
What's for Breakfast? (2024) — Carpark Records
The Big One (2026) — Carpark Records — L.A.-disaster concept album, mortality as central theme
Facts:
Started out playing ukulele-driven psychedelic pop in Oxford, Mississippi, co-founding the Cats Purring Collective after leaving NYU film school
The Big One has drawn comparisons to Randy Newman's doomsday wit, imagining L.A. sliding into the sea