10/17/2025
🌸 Announcing Bumpy No. 34: Debut EP “Inheritance” by May + The Ladies, out Friday November 7th! 🥳 “Inheritance” is now available to pre-order and comes in many forms! - Cassette, CD, & Download 💿 Head over to our Bandcamp page below to get the EP in all its shapes, and stream May’s first single “Holding On” as well as her NEW single “Likeable (Ft. Lake Davi)” ✨ As a bonus treat, we’re including special limited edition CD singles of “Holding On” featuring remixes by shea on air and TurtleTown with every EP pre-order! Get yours while supplies last either online or in-person at the release show! 🎫
Order here: https://mayandtheladies.bandcamp.com/album/inheritance
Speaking of which, ALSO on 11/7 is May’s “Inheritance” EP Release Show & Heiress Tour Kickoff with Basal Jones at New World in Minneapolis, MN (dm for address) - Featuring support from Bobbie Pin, Manual Controller, Mommy Longlegs, & DIE/ASPORA 🌟 PLUS, join us two days beforehand on Wednesday 11/5 at 7PM CT for her online Bandcamp Listening Party where you can get a full listen of the EP and chat with May in real time! 🎶
RSVP here: https://mayandtheladies.bandcamp.com/merch/may-the-ladies-inheritance-bandcamp-listening-party
Enjoy the music, and check out an excerpt of writing about the release by Bryn Battani below! 📝
"May Klug’s debut EP Inheritance is a bold, high-femme exploration of modern disconnection, consumerist surrealism, and the need to be held—emotionally, digitally, and sonically. Taking the aesthetics she explored in previous queercore art-punk project Egg Girl Girl and running with them in a whole new direction, the new release is as nostalgic as it is forward-looking, centered around the decaying hum of her beloved Casio keyboard. Rather than masking the instrument’s imperfections, May leans into them—transforming the keyboard’s natural breakdown into a compositional tool, a ghostly character in the EP’s emotional narrative.
The opening track “Dance With Me” throbs with the desire to be seen, heard, and felt: “The speaker is a microphone, the microphone’s a speaker / So when you dance in front of the subwoofer I can hear you.” The lyric’s reversal of input and output devices mirrors the yearning for connection in a world of mediated intimacy. What follows is “Likable,” a tune so cute and lilting it nearly masks the desperation underneath. Wrapped in glitchy synths, May longs for a connection that always falls short: “You say I’m incredible / And you wanna know me / And never talk to me again.” Perhaps being gazed upon under the neon lights is never quite enough to feel whole.
May’s searing wit blazes brightest on the third track, where her careful falsetto peaks as breaks as she’s “losing touch spacing out at the soft curve / Of the sans serif font of the ad for Ozempic.” The track dissolves into surrealist irony—chanting “Med Spa” like a disturbed matra or haunted commercial jingle—offering commentary on the cult of celebrity, aesthetic labor, and digital dissociation. May relates our everyday digital experiences in a manner nobody can miss, hitting it bluntly on the nose: “I’m scrolling past the short form video content posted by NATO of an F35 jet with Charli XCX in the background / What the f**k is going on?”
A vulnerable closer masquerading as a whirling bop, “Holding On” meditates on intimacy through distance and restraint. With minimal lyrical lifting, May takes the listener into a relationship characterized by its tension: “Tracing the words you wrote with my finger / I can feel your discipline.” The tension between closeness and control plays out in hushed vocals and tactile imagery.
Inheritance blends shimmering synth-pop with experimental textures. Whirring, thumping, and celestial, the EP captures the overstimulated hum of late-stage capitalism through the lens of a high-femme popstar. Themes of modernity, detachment, longing, and dissociation haunt every track—yet May’s wit and vulnerability ensure they never fall flat. This is pop music for the extremely online, the emotionally available, and all of us who simply crave the love we deserve.” ~ Bryn Battani 💖
