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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in May. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Friday, May 2
Andy Bell — Ten Crowns (Crown Recordings Limited)
Black Honey Cult — Black Honey Cult (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Blondshell — If You Asked for a Picture (Partisan Records)
Briston Maroney — JIMMY (Atlantic)
Car Seat Headrest — The Scholars (Matador Records)
Carriers — Every Time I Feel Afraid (Brassland)
Clem Snide — Oh Smokey (Cloverdale Records)
Club Night — Joy Coming Down (Tiny Engines)
Eric Church — Evangeline vs. The Machine (UMG)
Esther Rose — Want (New West Records)
The Flower Kings — LOVE (InsideOutMusic)
Gentle Giant — Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience (Chrysalis)
Hardy — Country! EP (Big Loud Records)
James Krivchenia — Performing Belief (Planet Mu)
Josh Groban — Gems (Reprise)
Key Glock — Glockaveli (Republic)
Lael Neale — Altogether Stranger (Sub Pop Records)
Låpsley — I’m a Hurricane and I’m a Woman in Love (Her Own Recordings)
Lights — A6 (Virgin)
Lucius — Lucius (Fantasy Records)
Maddie & Tae — Love & Light (UMG)
Mei Semones — Animaru (Bayonet Records)
Model/Actriz — Pirouette (True Panther)
Nightfall — Children of Eve (Season of Mist)
OMB Peezy & FBLManny — OverKrash (Overkill Entertainment/FBL Entertainment/Blac Noize!/ Hitmaker Music Group)
Personality Cult — Dilated (Dirtnap Records)
Pet Symmetry — Big Symmetry (Storm Chasers LTD/Asian Man Records)
Puddle of Mudd — Kiss the Machine (Pavement Entertainment)
Pup — Who Will Look After The Dogs? (Rise Records)
Pyramids — Pythagoras (The Flenser)
RÜFÜS DU SOL — Inhale / Exhale Remixed (Reprise Records)
Sally Potter — ANATOMY (Bella Union)
Samantha Crain — Gumshoe (Real Kind Records)
Sextile — yes, please. (Sacred Bones Records)
Suzanne Vega — Flying With Angels (Cooking Vinyl)
Teether and Kuya Neil — YEARN IV (Chapter Music)
Yung Lean — Jonatan (AWAL)
Yusuf / Cat Stevens — Saturnight: Live From Tokyo (Cat-O-Log Records)
Friday, May 9
Adult Mom — Natural Causes (Epitaph)
Alien Boy — You Wanna Fade? (Get Better Records)
Alien Chicks — Forbidden Fruit EP (Hideous Mink Records/SO Recordings)
The Amazons — 21st Century Fiction (Nettwerk)
Arcade Fire — Pink Elephant (Arcade Fire Music)
Arlo McKinley — Live at the Burl (Oh Boy Records)
Bibi Club — Feu de garde (les braises) (Secret City Records)
billy woods — GOLLIWOG (Backwoodz Studioz)
Blake Shelton — For Recreational Use Only (Wheelhouse Records)
Blossoms — Honeymoon Deluxe (ODD SK RECORDINGS)
Brandon — Before You Go (Secretly Canadian)
Brandon Woody — For The Love Of It All (Blue Note)
Butthole Surfers — Live at the Leather Fly (Sunset Blvd Records)
Candlemass — Black Star EP (Napalm Records Handels GmbH)
Chapterhouse — White House Demos EP (Sonic Cathedral)
Counting Crows — Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! (BMG)
Cuco — Ridin’ (Interscope)
Dan Wilson — good night, los angeles (Ballroom Recordings)
Deradoorian — Ready For Heaven (Fire Records)
Dope Lemon — Golden Wolf (BMG)
The Head and the Heart — Aperture (UMG)
Hippie Death Cult — Live at the Star Theater (Heavy Psych Sounds)
I’m With Her — Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder Records)
Jack Van Cleaf — JVC (Dualtone Music Group)
Kaleo — Mixed Emotions (Atlantic)
Kali Uchis — Sincerely, (UMG)
Kara-Lis Coverdale — From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound)
The Kooks — Never/Know (Lonely Cat)
Laibach — Alamut (Mute)
Leftover Salmon — Let’s Party About It (Compass Records)
Little Feat — Strike the Band (Hot Tomato Productions)
Maia Friedman — Goodbye Long Winter Shadow (Last Gang Records)
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke — Tall Tales (Warp)
Marren Morris — Dreamsicle (Columbia Records)
mclusky — the world is still here and so are we (Ipecac Recordings)
Nellie McKay — Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos (Hungry Mouse Records)
Nils Frahm — Night (Leiter)
No Windows — The Great Traitor EP (Fat Possum)
Peach Pit — Magpie (Expansion Pack) (Columbia Records)
Peter Murphy — Silver Shade (Metropolis Records)
PinkPantheress — Fancy That! (Warner Records)
Preoccupations — Ill at Ease (Born Losers)
Provoker — Mausoleum (YEAR0001)
Rilo Kiley — That’s How We Chose To Remember It (Saddle Creek)
Ringdown — Lady on the Bike (Nonesuch)
Skinny Lister — Songs From the Yonder (Xtra Mile Recordings)
Sleep Token — Even In Arcadia (RCA Records)
Spacey Jane — If That Makes Sense (Concord)
TETRACH — The Ugly Side of Me (Napalm Records)
TVOD — Party Time (Mothland)
The Wonder Years — Burst & Decay Vol. III (Loneliest Place On Earth/Hopeless Records)
Friday, May 16
Alexandra Savior — Beneath The Lilypad (RCA Records)
Animé — 13 Months of Sunshine (10K Projects)
Arm’s Length — There’s a Whole World Out There (Pure Noise Records)
Avicii — Avicii Forever (Positiva)
Barenaked Ladies — In Flight — Carry On EP (BNL Entertainment)
Bury Tomorrow — Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience (Music For Nations)
The Callous Daoboys — I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven (MNRK Records)
Cautious Clay — The Hours: Morning (Fantasy Records)
Charlie Musselwhite — Look Out Highway (Forty Below Records)
Damiano David — Funny Little Fears (y Music Italy/Arista Records)
Dan Mangan — Natural Light (Arts & Crafts)
The Dandy Warhols — Rock Remaker EP (Sunset Blvd Records/Beat The World)
DRAM & Ellis Quinn — LEORPIO (Create Music Group)
Ekkstacy — Forever (UnitedMasters)
Ezra Furman — Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union)
Friendship — Caveman Wakes Up (Merge Records)
Grails — Miracle Music (Temporary Residence)
Jin — Echo (BIGHIT Music)
Jon Lindsay — Big Stage (Daffin Records)
José James — 1978: Revenge of The Dragon (Rainbow Blonde Records)
Ken Pomeroy — Cruel Joke (Rounder Records)
Kilo Kish — Negotiations EP (Kisha Soundscapes + Audio)
Lido Pimienta — La Belleza (Anti)
Matt Maltese — Hers (Tonight Matthew)
M(h)aol — Something Soft (Merge Records)
Miso Extra — Earcandy (Transgressive)
MØ — Plæygirl (Sony Music)
Morgan Wallen — I’m the Problem (Big Loud Records)
Mourning [A] BLKstar — Flowers for the Living (Don Giovanni Records)
NYTT LAND — Songs of the Shaman (Prophecy Productions)
Pelican — Flickering Resonance (Run For Cover Records)
Pretty Rude — Ripe (SideOneDummy)
Rico Nasty — Lethal (Atlantic)
Shanti Celeste — Romance (Method 808 x Peach Discs)
Sleep Theory — Afterglow (Epitaph)
Slow Joy — A Joy So Slow At Times I Don’t Think It’s Coming (Mick Music)
Sofi Tukker — butter (Sofi Tukker)
Spill Tab — Angie (Because Music)
Tarja — Circus Life (earMUSIC)
Thor & Friends — Heathen Spirituals (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Triathalon — RIP (Lex Records)
Tune-Yards — Better Dreaming (4AD)
Tyler Braden — devil and a prayer (Warner Music Nashville)
Windser — Windser (Bright Antenna Records)
Youth Code — Yours, With Malice EP (Sumerian Records)
Yuno — Blest (Sub Pop)
Friday, May 23
CDSM — Convertible Hearse (Mothland & Exag’ Records)
Charmer — Downpour (Counter Intuitive)
Cola Boyy — Quit to Play Chess (Record Makers)
Dirty Nice — Planet Weekend (Chiverin)
Florry — Sounds Like… (Dear Life Records)
Home Is Where — Hunting Season (Wax Bodega)
Howard Jones — Piano Composed (Cherry Red)
Joe Jonas — Music For People Who Believe In Love (Republic Records)
Lou Tides — Autostatic! (Switch Hit Records)
Marc Ribot — Map of a Blue City (New West Records)
Nymphlord — Rough Blue Blanket EP (LAUREN RECORDS)
Pachyman — Another Place (ATO Records)
Resavoir & Matt Gold — Horizon (International Anthem)
Rich Brian — Where Is My Head? (88rising Records)
Sedona — Getting Into Heaven (Sedona)
Smerz — Big City Life (escho)
Sophia Kennedy — Squeeze Me (City Slang)
Sparks — MAD! (Transgressive Records)
Sports Team — Boys These Days (Bright Antenna & Distiller Records)
The SteelDrivers — Outrun (Sun Label Group)
Stereolab — Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Duophonic UHF Disks)
Taj Mahal + Keb’ Mo’ — Room On The Porch (UMG)
Thalia Zedek Band — The Boat Outside Your Window (Thrill Jockey)
These New Puritans — Crooked Wing (Domino)
VC Pines — Viole(n)t Colour EP (Theory Records)
When Rivers Meet — Addicted to You (One Road Records)
Witchcraft — IDAG (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Friday, May 30
Aesop Rock — Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers)
Anderson East — Worthy (Rounder Records)
Ben Kweller — Cover the Mirrors (The Noise Company)
The Budos Band — VII (Diamond West Records)
Caroline — Caroline 2 (Rough Trade)
Civic — Chrome Dipped (ATO)
Clamm — Serious Acts (Meat Machine)
Demise of Love — Demise of Love EP (Domino)
Faun Fables — Counterclockwise (Drag City)
Garbage — Let All That We Imagine Be The Light (BMG)
Gordi — Like Plasticine (Mushroom Music)
Grace Potter — Medicine (Hollywood Records)
guccihighwaters — DEATH BY DESIRE (Epitaph)
The Haunted — Songs of Last Resort (Century Media Records)
Illuminati Hotties — Nickel on the Fountain Floor EP (Hopeless Records)
Kathryn Joseph — WE WERE MADE PREY. (Rock Action)
Matthew Young — Undercurrents (Drag City)
Miley Cyrus — Something Beautiful (Columbia Records)
The Minus 5 — Oar On, Penelope! (Yep Roc)
Miynt — Rain Money Dogs (B3SCI)
Moonrisers — Harsh & Exciting (Easy Eye Sound)
MRCY — Volume 2 (Dead Oceans)
Mt. Joy — Hope We Have Fun (Futures Music Group)
Obongjayar — PARADISE NOW (September Recordings)
Planning for Burial — It’s Closeness, It’s Easy (Flenser)
Preston Woolsey — bubba (Rose Garden)
Shura — Got Too Sad For My Friends (Play It Again Sam)
Slaney Bay — The Long Way Home EP (Slaney Bay)
Swans — Birthing (Mute)
Tash Sultana — Return to the Roots EP (Sony Music Australia)
Ty Segall — Possession (Drag City)
Watchhouse — Rituals (Thirty Tigers)
yeule — Evangelic Girl is a Gun (Ninja Tune)
