It’s becoming a tale as old as time, at this point: A new band blows up on the algorithms, creates a buzz, and dies down. For Super Sometimes, though, things are a little different. The gutsy three-piece from San Diego has been toiling away at music for a while. And, in August 2025, almost overnight, their online reach exploded to over 20,000 when one of their singles went viral.

Sure, numbers on an app are great (and it’s almost certainly required to have any real conversations with record labels) – but does their music have stopping power? They say: Yes. And, more importantly, it’s what their new album, Show The World What’s Underneath, proves. But, while speaking exclusively to the Daily Express, guitarist and vocalist Dylan Guzman pointed out they have some massive shoes to fill.

Show The World What’s Underneath is Super Sometimes’ first full-length album. The band previously released a couple of EPs with some aforementioned viral hits along the way, but now the actual work begins, Dylan mused.

While it’s easy for people to make snap judgements of the band on a 20-second TikTok or Reel, the album aims to show people (quite literally) that there’s more beneath the almost gauche perception of nostalgic pop-punk.

Speaking on the album from the back of a tour bus, Dylan said: “The mission statement of the whole record is kind of the title track. And we stumbled into that title just because every time we were listening through the track listing, and we got to that song, that was something that always stuck out as being like the ethos of the whole, entire record.”

The band have “worked very hard” throughout the process, Dylan stressed. Early on, they set out to craft an album that evoked the same feelings they experienced as kids listening to The Starting Line’s Say It Like You Mean It or Fall Out Boy’s Take This To Your Grave.

“It is very much us staking our flag in the ground,” Dylan said. “And being like: ‘Here we are. We are proud of who we are.'”

Super Sometimes’ music harkens back to the glory days of the genre not only compositionally and lyrically, but tonally, as well. See This Coming is a lighter touch that echoes All Time Low and Boys Like Girls, leaning more on the pop than punk. On the other hand, the album’s final track, Prophet, delivers a Sum 41-esque fury that flips between relief and spite (“All respect I had for you / I f****ng lost it”).

Super Sometimes’ heritage and hometown are, evidently, important to them – and it’s easy to see why. Hailing from San Diego, the home of Blink-182 and Pierce the Veil, they’re in good company.

Their somewhat nostalgic stance on music isn’t some sort of crusade about “defending pop-punk”, though. This is just what they’ve always known. “We’re just pop-punk guys through and through,” Dylan explained, without an ounce of irony. “This is the music that we grew up on, especially being from San Diego… the Blink heritage DNA runs deep in our veins.

“We were all exposed to this type of music from a very early age. My dad used to play in pop-punk bands and tour and stuff like that, and he kind of stopped doing that because him and my mom had me. But I grew up going to shows.” Dylan proudly added that he “attended his first Warped Tour at three-years-old”.

Show The World What’s Underneath hasn’t been written and produced to float on the rising tide of pop-punk and emo nostalgia. Nor is it an answer to the algorithmic question of “what’s going to trend next?” It’s simply who they are, and something they want to make a career out of.

And they go gladly into the fight – even if they have to live two separate lives to do it. At the time of our conversation, Super Sometimes were supporting Arm’s Length on their enormous North American tour. But after that, like many working musicians, they’re returning to work.

“I am still flipping burgers at In-N-Out Burger,” Dylan laughed. “We still all work our day jobs, you know, we do as much as we can at home to be able to sustain touring on the road.”

Dylan is completely undeterred about being faced with going back to minimum wage after having thousands of people scream their lyrics back at them, though. Instead, the album is just the beginning for them.

He said: “This is a true proper: ‘Hello, this is us, get familiar.’ Because we plan to be here for a long time.”

Super Sometimes – Show The World What’s Underneath is out May 15, 2026.