All The New Albums Coming Out This Month For May 2023

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 5

79.5 — 79.5 (Razor-N-Tape)
7ebra — Bird Hour (PNKSLM Recordings)
Aime Simone — Oh Glory (Because Music)
The Album Leaf — Future Falling (Nettwerk)
Ana Popovic — Power (ArtisteXclusive Records)
Armani White — Road to CASABLANCO EP (Def Jam Recordings)
Artemis — In Real Time (Blue Note Records)
Atmosphere — So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Avishai Cohen and Abraham Rodriguez Jr. — Iroko (Blue Note Records)
BAILEN — Tired Hearts (Fantasy Records)
Bill Pritchard — Sings Poems By Patrick Woodcock (Tapete Records)
billy woods and Kenny Segal — Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)
The Bomboras — Songs From Beyond! (Zombie a Go-Go)
The Bollweevils — Essential (Red Scare Industries)
Claire Rosinkranz — Just Because (Republic Records)
The Connells — Set the Stage (TVT)
Conway the Machine — Won’t He Do It (Drumwork)
Dave Lombardo — Rites of Percussion (Ipecac Recordings)
David Wax Museum — You Must Change Your Life (Nine Mile Records)
Destroy Lonely — If Looks Could Kill (Interscope Opium)
Durand Jones — Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)
Ed Sheeran — – (Subtract) (Asylum/Atlantic)
Emily King — Special Occasion (ATO Records)
felicita — Spalarkle (PC Music)
Five Fingers of Funk — Portland Say It Again (Kill Rock Stars)
Flasher — In My Myth EP (Domino Records)
Freya Ridings — Blood Orange (Good Soldier Records)
Gaby Moreno — X Mí (Vol. 1) (Cosmica Artists)
Gord Downie and Bob Rock — Lustre Parfait (Arts & Crafts)
Greg Mendez — Greg Mendez (Forged Artifacts)
Guadalupe Plata — Guadalupe Plata (Second Storm Records)
IDK — F65 (Warner/Clue)
JELEEL! — REAL RAW! (10K Projects)
Jenny Owen Youngs — from the forest floor (Offair Records)
Jidenna — Me You & God (Wondaland Records)
The Jonas Brothers — The Album (Republic Records)
Justin Moore — Stray Dog (The Valory Music Co.)
LA Priest — False Luna (Domino)
The Lemon Twigs — Everything Harmony (Captured Tracks)
Mareux — Lovers From the Past (Revolution/Warner Records)
Megan Moroney — LUCKY (Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records)
Nanna — How to Start a Garden (Republic Records)
NxxxxxS — Short Term Agreement (Mad Decent)
OhGeesy — Geezyworld 2 (Atlantic)
Olivia Jean — Raving Ghost (Third Man Records)
Peter One — Come Back to Me (Verve Forecast)
Q — Soul,PRESENT (Columbia Records)
Rodney Crowell — The Chicago Sessions (New West Records)
Ryan Oakes — Wake Up (Position Music)
Sad Boys Club — Lullabies From The Lightning Tree (Blood Records)
SBTRKT — The Rat Road (XL)
The Smashing Pumpkins — ATUM — Act 3 (Napalm Records)
SQÜRL — Silver Haze (Sacred Bones)
Tom Meighan — The Reckoning (Destruct Records)
yMusic — YMUSIC (StorySound Records)
Westerman — An Inbuilt Fault (Partisan)
Winger — Seven (Frontiers Music Srl.)

Friday, May 12

The Acacia Strain — Failure Will Follow (Rise Records)
The Acacia Strain — Step Into the Light (Rise Records)
Alfie Firmin — Absentee (Bobo Integral)
Alison Goldfrapp — The Love Invention (Skint)
The Amity Affliction — Not Without My Ghosts (Pure Noise Records)
ARIZONA — ARIZONA (Atlantic)
Bailey Zimmerman — Religiously. The Album. (Elektra Records)
BC Camplight — The Last Rotation of Earth (Bella Union)
Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain Feat. Rakesh Chaurasia — As We Speak (Thirty Tigers)
Belinda Carlisle — Kismet EP (BMG)
Bohannons — Night Construction (Cornelius Chapel)
Bruce Cockburn — O Sun O Moon (True North Records)
Charlie Hall — Invisible Ink (El Triángulo Records)
Charlotte Cornfield — Could Have Done Anything (Double Double Whammy)
Chloe Gallardo — Defamator (Taxi Gauche Records)
Chuck Strangers — Boys & Girls EP (Lex Records)
The Courettes — Boom! Dynamite (An Introduction To The Fabulous Courettes) (Damaged Goods Records)
Dropkick Murphys — Okemah Rising (Dummy Luck Music)
Eluvium — (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality (Temporary Residence)
Fatoumata Diawara — London Ko (Wagram Music)
Harriet — The Outcome (Universal)
Heem — From the Cradle to the Game (MNRK)
Hot Mulligan — Why Would I Watch (Wax Bodega)
Iguana Death Cult — Echo Palace (Innovative Leisure)
James Ellis Ford — The Hum (Warp)
Jeff Carson — 448 (Curb Records)
Jeffrey Silverstein — Western Sky Music (Arrowhawk Records)
Johnny Polonsky — Rise of the Rebel Angels (Loosegroove Records/The Orchard)
Kaytraminé — Kaytraminé (Kaytranada)
Kesmar — Always Chasing Rainbows (Nettwerk Records)
Lauren Daigle — Lauren Daigle (Centricity Music)
Libby Rodenbough — Between the Blades (Sleepy Cat Records)
LP Giobbi — Light Places (CounterRecords)
Lucy Liyou — Dog Dreams (개꿈) (American Dreams)
Mike Gordon — Flying Games (ATO Records/Megaplum)
Moby — Resound NYC (Mute)
Nighthawk — Prowler (Mighty Music)
NIKI — Nicole: Live at the Wiltern (88rising)
Oval — Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)
Overmono — Good Lies (XL Recordings)
Parker McCollum — Never Enough (MCA Nashville)
Parker Millsap — Wilderness Within You (Thirty Tigers)
Rahill — Flowers At Your Feet (Big Dada)
Seán Barna — An Evening At Marci Park (Kill Rock Stars)
Sub Focus — Evolve (EMI Records)
Symphony Orchestra — Radiant Music (Telephone Explosion)
Various Artists (Feat. Celine Dion) — Love Again (Soundtrack From the Motion Picture) (Screen Gems)
WAR — The Remixes EP (Avenue/Rhino Records)
waveform* — Antarctica (Run For Cover)

Friday, May 19

Alex Lahey — The Answer is Always Yes (Liberation Music)
Allie Crow Buckley — Utopian Fantasy (Nettwerk)
Andy Bell and Masal — Tidal Love Numbers (Sonic Cathedral)
ANNA — Intentions (Mercury KX)
bar italia — Tracey Denim (Matador Records)
Belly — Mumble Rap 2 (XO/Roc Nation)
Brandy Clark — Brandy Clark (Warner Bros.)
Califone — Villagers (Jealous Butcher Records)
Curtis Waters — Bad Son (BMG)
Dan Croll — Fools (Communion Records)
Dave Matthews Band — Walk Around the Moon (RCA)
Dave McMurray — Grateful Deadication 2 (Blue Note)
Def Leppard With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra — Drastic Symphonies (UMR)
Ellen Zweig — Fiction of the Physical (Sun Language)
Foyer Red — Yarn the Hours Away (Carpark Records)
Gracie and Rachel — Nowhere Now Here EP (Righteous Babe Records)
GracieHorse — L.A. Shit (Wharf Cat Records)
Graham Nash — Now (BMG)
Gumm — Slogan Machine (Convulse Records)
Hannah Jadagu — Aperture (Sub Pop)
Hannah Rose Platt — Deathbed Confessions (Xtra Mile Recordings)
Horse Jumper of Love — Heartbreak Rules (Run For Cover)
HotWax — A Thousand Times EP (Marathon Artists)
Jealous of the Birds — Hinterland (Canvasback/Atlantic Records)
Juanes — Vida Cotidiana (Universal Music Latino)
Kesha — Gag Order (RCA Records)
Kristian North — Pseudoscience Fiction (Mothland)
Lambrini Girls — You’re Welcome EP (Big Scary Monsters)
Lauren Early — Don’t Take My Dream Away (Danger Collective)
Leftover Salmon — Grass Roots (Compass Records)
Leith Ross — To Learn (Republic Records)
Les Lullies — Mauvaise (Slovenly Recordings)
Lewis Capaldi — Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (Vertigo)
Mandy, Indiana — i’ve seen a way (Piccadilly Records)
Marty Stuart — Altitude (Snakefarm)
Matt Espy — Hawksworth (Drag City)
The Milk Carton Kids — I Only See The Moon (Far Cry Records)
The Murlocs — Calm Ya Farm (ATO Records)
Neal Schon — Journey Through Time (Frontiers Music)
Paper Bee — Thaw, Freeze, Thaw (Get Better Records)
Paul Simon — Seven Psalms (Owl Records/Legacy Recordings)
PONY — Velveteen (Take This To Heart Records)
POZI — Smiling Pools (Piccadilly Records)
Raul Malo — Say Less (Mono Mundo Recordings)
Rich Aucoin — A Synth Odyssey: Season 2 (We Are Busy Bodies)
Robert Ellis — Yesterday’s News (Niles City Records)
Salami Rose Joe Louis — Akousmatikous (Brainfeeder)
Saloon Dion — Muckers EP (Mucker Records)
Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton — Death Wish Blues (Rounder Records)
Setting Sun — The Feelings Cure (Young Love Records)
shy martin — late night thoughts (Shy Recordings)
Sir Chloe — I Am the Dog (Atlantic Records)
Spirit Award — The Fear (Share it Music)
Stella Rose — Eyes of Glass (KRO Records)
Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick — Reflections (Asthmatic Kitty Records)
Summer Salt — Campanita (Wax Bodega)
Summer Walker — CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE EP (LVRN/Interscope Records)
Sweet & Lynch — Heart & Sacrifice (Frontiers)
Taleban Dooda — Taleban vs. Dooda (Warner Records)
Tanlines — The Big Mess (Merge)
Temps — PARTY GATOR PURGATORY (Bella Union)
THETAN — Dim Times EP (Anticorp Music)
ThxSoMch — Sleez EP (Elektra)
Tinariwen — Amatssou (Wedge)
The Used — Toxic Positivity (Hassle Records/Big Noise)
Various Artists — The Little Mermaid Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Disney)
YES — Mirror to the Sky (InsideOut Music)