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title: Some music recommendations before May ends
date: 2026-05-29T14:52:33.808Z
slug: 2026-05-29-some-music-recommendations-before-may-ends
author: Thomas Wilson-Cook
tags:
  - music

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I rarely write as much when the days are warm.  Funny that I write more when it feels like the days are so short.  Anyway it's been like 28 degrees here and I've been sunning myself like a lizard with an aperol spritz.  
  
I wanted to note some of the music I’ve been enjoying this last month.  It’s a listicle.  I’m getting away with a cheap listicle to make sure I published *something*.   
  
## “Wakefire: A Summer Album” by  Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith  
  
Lady Misery are a three-piece band based out of Sheffield and they make folk music.  I’ve long been a fan of the earnest sound of the band.  The music, a self described “incantation to summer”, is exactly that.  Imagine summer in the village, evening sunbeams through a just-filled glass in a pub garden, and walking through any setting you could unironically call verdant.  
  
[Link to Bandcamp page](https://ladymaisery.bandcamp.com/album/wakefire-a-summer-album-extended-length)  
  
## “Show The World What’s Underneath” by Super Sometimes  
  
This is pop punk.  Long-rumoured dead, then revived in 2024-2025 for a renaissance.  This record is punchy (10 songs, 30 minutes), streamlined to driving guitar riffs and drums, not to forget the couldn’t-be-anything-else-but emo vocals (*Dear Maria, I've got your picture...*).  This is the band’s second record in ten months, and I *really* hope it’s not their last.  Signed to Pure Noise records (New Found Glory, Knuckle Puck, State Champs) they’re in good company, and hopefully they can find their niche.  
  
[Link to Bandcamp page](https://supersometimes.bandcamp.com/album/show-the-world-whats-underneath)  
  
## “Never Always” by The Band CAMINO  
  
This alt/indie/pop rock group called themselves “your mom’s favourite band” on their Spotify bio when I discovered them and honestly I can imagine them taking my mum for dinner, being great company, encouraging her to order from the fancy cocktail menu, and making sure she takes any leftover tiramisu home in a doggy bag.  Because The Band CAMINO know that life is hard but it’s not that deep.  Anyway, fan-fic about a band I’ve never met taking my mum for dinner aside, they recently put out a *Volume 2* of this record, which I’m still spending time with.  In the mean time, time spent with this record won’t be time wasted.  It weaves comfortably around sub-genres of rock, sonically borrowing from country (who isn’t, these days) and 1970s pop (again…), but it doesn’t feel tired.  
  
[Link to Bandcamp page](https://thebandcaminoband.bandcamp.com/album/neveralways)