All The New Albums Coming Out In May 2025

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)