New album releases and announcements are constant, and keeping track of them all can be difficult. Now with our regularly updated release guide, you won’t have to. May is another good month for alternative music, featuring releases from Ecca Vandal, Lip Critic, Maya Hawke, Basement, Koyo, Violet Grohl, MUNA, and more. See which albums are coming out this month below.
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May 1
American Football – LP4 (Polyvinyl)
Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere (Lost Highway)
Kneecap – Fenian (Heavenly)
Lip Critic – Theft World (Partisan)
Maya Hawke – Maitreya Corso (Mom + Pop)
Sub*T – How My Own Voice Sounds (Sub*T)
Seefeel – Sol.Hz (Warp)
Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons (Fontana)
youbet – youbet (Hardly Art)
May 8
Aldous Harding – Train on the Island (4AD)
Basement – WIRED (Run For Cover)
Broken Social Scene – Remember the Humans (Arts & Crafts)
Cola – Cost of Living Adjustment (Fire Talk)
Deb Never – ARCADE (Giant)
Koyo – Barely Here (Pure Noise)
The Lemon Twigs – Look for Your Mind! (Captured Tracks)
MUNA – Dancing on the Wall (Saddest Factory/Secretly Group)
Social Distortion – Born to Kill (Epitaph)
May 15
The All-American Rejects – Sandbox (Slick Shoes)
Dua Saleh – Of Earth & Wires (Ghostly International)
Genesis Owusu – REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (Ourness)
Held. – GREY (MNRK Heavy)
Jeff Parker and the ETA IVtet – Happy Today (International Anthem)
Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans)
Super Sometimes – Show the World What’s Underneath (Pure Noise)
Towa Bird – Gentleman (Interscope)
May 22
Bleachers – everyone for ten minutes (Dirty Hit)
Ecca Vandal – LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW (Loma Vista)
Lowertown – Ugly Duckling Union (Summer Shade)
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt – Almost Waking (Unheard of Hope)
May 29
All Them Witches – House of Mirrors (BMG)
Dogstar – All in Now (Dillon Street)
Francis of Delirium – Run, Run Pure Beauty (Dalliance)
Greg Mendez – Beauty Land (Dead Oceans)
Sparta – Cut a Silhouette (Equal Vision)
villagerrr – Carousel (Winspear)
Violet Grohl – Be Sweet to Me (Auroura/Republic)
