That determination powers every inch of 'Show the World What's Underneath'. The album began taking shape in late 2024 after Dylan and Gabe saw The Story So Far at Los Angeles' Palladium and walked away with a mission.

"I remember me and Gabe walking out telling ourselves that one day that would be us, and that we needed to lock in and finally write our debut record." So they got to work. Fast. "Over the next couple of months, we wrote close to 30 songs and recorded the whole thing in the summer of 2025."

The leap forward from their earlier material came from experience and repetition. "Every song from the comp record FTAN, with the exception of 'Say Something Now,' was written when we were 15 to 17 years old and were quite literally the first songs we ever wrote," they explain. "We had three more years of songwriting under our belts, and we wrote a lot of songs, so we knew the 10 that actually made the album were the absolute cream of the crop."

Every detail got scrutinised. "We made sure we were proud of and stoked on every second of every song."

That growth shows up all over the album. 'Learned My Lesson' heads into glossy alt-rock territory and feels, according to the band, "like an All-American Rejects song". 'Prophet' opened the door to darker tracks, including the title song and 'Afterthought'. 'Spend', meanwhile, reconnects with the more straightforward pop-punk side of their older material.

Then there's the emotional side of the record, which hits much harder than the bright hooks and huge choruses first suggest.

"It was a big risk for us to go all in on touring and playing music full-time," they explain. "For some of us, that meant not going to college and working full-time straight out of high school to afford touring, as well as sacrificing formative years of our lives by being away from our friends and family back home to chase this wild dream of being in a pop-punk band."

That uncertainty became a huge part of the writing process. "It was hardest to be honest about how much it scared us," they continue. "Despite how well everything's going for us so far, when you zoom out and really look at what we're doing, it's pretty insane and can be very stressful if you dwell on it for too long."

Talking about those fears ended up strengthening the band itself. "Having an outlet for everything we were feeling really brought us closer together as friends, while also opening the door for everybody to be truly sincere in what we're saying in these songs."

Even while discussing stress, sacrifice and huge life decisions, Super Sometimes still sound completely fired up about where they're heading next. Ask what success looks like now, and the answer arrives immediately: "Definitely selling out our own headline tour surrounding this record and taking it international is the goal."

More specifically? "Being able to roll up to any club around the world and have people show up to stage dive, crowd surf, circle pit, and scream the words back at us is what we've always dreamed of."

And they're not wasting time getting there. Their summer includes finishing the Arm's Length tour, playing an album release show back home in San Diego, appearing at Warped Tour and heading to Japan for headline dates.

Away from music, the band spend their time skateboarding, hunting for vintage clothes, exercising and gaming. Still, everything eventually circles back to songs.

"Above all, though, we truly do think about and play music every day of our lives," they say. "It never gets old, and the spark is always there."

Super Sometimes' album 'Show the World What's Underneath' is out now.