These are the May album releases in alternative, rock, metal, and beyond
New album releases and announcements are constant, and it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Now with our regularly updated release guide, you won’t have to. May is another good month for alternative music, with records from twenty one pilots, Billie Eilish, Say Anything, Knocked Loose, Maya Hawke, the Marías, Death Lens, and more. See which albums are coming out this month below.
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May 2
Lightning Bug - No Paradise (Lightning Bug)
May 3
Blushing - Sugarcoat (Kanine)
Camera Obscura - Look To The East, Look To The West (Merge)
Charlotte Day Wilson - Cyan Blue (Stone Woman Music/XL)
Death Lens - Cold World (Epitaph)
Frank Turner - Undefeated (Xtra Mile)
Hana Vu - Romanticism (Ghostly International)
Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch (Mexican Summer)
John Carpenter - Lost Themes IV: Noir (Sacred Bones)
Kacy Hill - Bug (Nettwerk)
Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know (Captured Tracks)
Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice (Matador)
Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity (Deluxe) (Run for Cover)
P.O.D. - Veritas (Mascot)
Sia - Reasonable Woman (Atlantic)
snarls - With Love (Take This To Heart)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary – Live At London Bridge (Sunny Day Real Estate)
WILLOW - empathogen (WILLOW)
May 10
A.G. Cook - Britpop (New Alias)
Amen Dunes - Death Jokes (Sub Pop)
Clementine Was Right - Tell Your You’re Going Home (The Blue Turn)
Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
Hot Water Music - VOWS (Equal Vision)
How to Dress Well - I Am Toward You (Sargent House)
Incubus - Morning View XXIII (Incubus)
Keeley Forsyth - The Hollow (FatCat)
Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (Pure Noise)
Like Moths to Flames - The Cycles of Trying to Cope (UNFD)
Orville Peck - Stampede: Vol. 1 (Warner)
Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Love Hate Music Box (Elektra)
Stretch Arm Strong - The Revealing EP (Deathwish)
youbet - Way To Be (Hardly Art)
May 17
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown (Domino)
Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (Interscope)
Cage the Elephant - Neon Pill (RCA)
Cold Hart - Pretty in the Dark (Epitaph)
Crumb - AMAMA (Crumb)
Draag - Actually, The Quiet Is Nice EP (Julia’s War)
girli - Matriarchy (AllPoints)
Guppy - Something is Happening… (Lauren)
Guster - Ooh La La (Ocho Mule)
Intervals - memory palace (Intervals)
Lip Critic - Hex Dealer (Partisan)
Of Montreal - Lady On The Cusp (Polyvinyl)
One Step Closer - All You Embrace (Run for Cover)
Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive (Nuclear Blast)
Phoebe Go - Marmalade (Phoebe Go)
Shellac - To All Trains (Touch and Go)
Slash - Orgy Of The Damned (Gibson)
So Totally - Double Your Relaxation (Tiny Engines)
Various - Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (A24 Music)
May 24
Carlos Niño & Friends - Placenta (International Anthem)
DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water (Fantasy)
La Luz - News Of The Universe (Sub Pop)
Say Anything - …Is Committed (Dine Alone)
Softcult - Heaven EP (Softcult)
twenty one pilots - Clancy (Fueled by Ramen)
Wallows - Model (Atlantic)
May 31
Alan Vega - Insurrection (In the Red)
The Marías - Submarine (Atlantic)
Maya Hawke - Chaos Angel (Mom+Pop)
Thou - Umbilical (Sacred Bones)
Winnetka Bowling League - Sha La La (Local Weather/MDDN)
