All The New Albums Coming Out In May 2021

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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 7

• A Certain Ratio — ACR:EPA EP (Mute Corporation)
• Acid’s Test –Strings Of Souls (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Alfie Templeman — Forever Isn’t Long Enough (Chess Club Records)
• Allblack — TY4FWM (Thank You 4 Fuckin’ With Me) (Crumb Records)
• Aly & AJ — A Touch Of The Beat Gets You Up On Your Feet Gets You Out And Then Into The Sun (Aly & AJ Music LLC)
• Angel Olsen — Song Of The Lark And Other Far Memories (Jagjaguwar)
• Annie Hart — Everything Pale Blue (Orindal Records)
• Arielle — Analog Girl In A Digital World (self-released)
• Ashe — Ashlyn (Mom & Pop Music)
• Bailey Bryan — Fresh Start (300 Entertainment/Warner Music Nashville)
• Bebe Rexha — Better Mistakes (Warner Records)
• Best Move — Mirror Image Twins EP (Park The Van)
• Blue Cactus — Stranger Again (Sleepy Cat Records)
• Buffet Lunch — The Power Of Rocks (Upset The Rhythm)
• Century Egg — Little Piece Of Hair EP (Forward Music Group)
• Charlie Marie — Ramble On (Soundly Music)
• Chloe Moriondo — Blood Bunny (Elektra Music)
• Cold Moon — What’s The Rush (Pure Noise Records)
• The Damn Truth — Now Or Nowhere (Spectra Musique/Sony Music)
• Daniel Bachman — Axacan (Three Lobed Recordings)
• Dodie — Build A Problem (The Orchard)
• Dorothea Paas — Anything Can’t Happen (Telephone Explosion Records)
• Doss — 4 New Hit Songs EP (LuckyMe)
• Emma Moore — The Table EP (Pilot Records)
• Fickle Friends — Weird Years: Season 2 (self-released)
• Fiver — Fiver With The Atlantic School Of Spontaneous Composition (You’ve Changed Records)
• Fougére — Still Life (Studio Fougére)
• Francisco Martin — Beautiful Ramblings Of A Restless Mind EP (19 Recordings)
• GoGo Penguin — GGP/RMX (Blue Note Records)
• Graham Costello — Second Lives (Gearbox Records)
• Grey Mouse — A Moment Of Weakness (Addicted Label)
• Iceage — Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer)
• Ilan Bluestone — Impulse (Anjunabeats)
• India Jordan — “Watch Out!” (Ninja Tune)
• Jake Manzi — Whatever My Heart Allows (Missing Piece Group)
• Kali — Circles EP (self-released)
• Kasai Allstars — Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound (Crammed Discs)
• Kelsy Karter — Live From Nowhere (BMG)
• L’Orange & Namir Blade — Imaginary Everything (Mello Music Group)
• Leftover Salmon — Brand New Good Old Days (Compass Records)
• Linn Koch-Emmery — Being The Girl (Boys Tears)
• Lipstick Jodi — More Like Me (Quite Scientific)
• Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell — Burn (Cleopatra Records)
• Lucinda Chua — Antidotes 2 EP (4AD)
• Mandy Barnett — Every Star Above (BMG)
• Manolo Redondo — The Lost & Found EP (Violette Records)
• McCormick — Till The Sun Comes Up (self-released)
• McKinley Dixon — For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her (Spacebomb Records)
• Mia Joy — Spirit Tamer (Fire Talk)
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones — When God Was Great (Hellcat/Epitaph)
• Mighty Oaks — Mexico (Howl Records)
• Mina Tindle — The LFO/Blogothèque Sessions EP (37d03d)
• Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall — The Marfa Tapes (Vanner Records/RCA Nashville)
• Model Child — Unscrewed EP (XL)
• Moneira — Colour Visions (Jivvär)
• Nancy Wilson — You And Me (Carry On Music)
• Naomi Banks — Meeting Again EP (Bella Union)
• Natalie Bergman — Mercy (Third Man Records)
• Nelson Beer — Orlando EP (PIAS)
• Night Beats — Outlaw R&B (Fuzz Club Records)
• Night Heron — Instructions For The Night (Terrorbird)
• Nous Alpha — A Walk In The Woods (Our Silent Canvas)
• People Club — Take Me Home EP (Kartel Music Group)
• Pile — In The Corners Of A Sphere-Filled Room (self-released)
• The Purrs — We Thought There’d Be More People Here (Hockeytalkter Records)
• Quintin Copper & Nas Mellow — April Dreams (Diggers Factory)
• Results Of Adults — Interstellar Peach Delight (Cornelius Chapel Records)
• Robin McAuley — Standing On The Edge (Frontiers Music)
• Round Eye — Culture Shock Treatment (Paper + Plastick)
• Salem — Salem II (Salem/Decent)
• Sam Valdez — Take Care (B3SCI Records)
• Sanjay — Initiation EP (Purple Condor Records)
• Sarah Jarosz — Blue Heron Suite (Rounder Records)
• Semi Precious — Post-Euphoria (Squareglass)
• Senso — Drifter94 EP (Inverted Audio)
• Shaun Ross — Shift (JEX Records)
• The Skinner Brothers — Iconic EP (Blaggers Records)
• Sonic Haven — Vagabond (Frontiers Music)
• Sophia Kennedy — Monsters (City Slang)
• Sumo Cyco — Initiation (Napalm Records)
• Ted Russell Kamp — Solitaire (Ted Russell Kamp/PoMo Records)
• Tommy Emmanuel — Accomplice Series Volume 1 With Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley EP (CGP Sounds)
• Tommy’s Rocktrip — Beat Up By Rock ‘N Roll (Frontiers Music)
• Toosii — Thank You For Believing (Quality Control/Motown)
• Tony Joe White — Smoke from The Chimney (Easy Eye Sound)
• Travis Tritt — Set In Stone (Big Noise)
• Weezer — Van Weezer (Atlantic/Crush)
• Wiki & Nah — Telephonebooth (Wikset Enterprise)
• Will Stratton — The Changing Wilderness (Bella Union)
• Van Morrison — Latest Record Project: Volume 1 (Exile/BMG)
• Voroni — The Last Three Seconds (Small Pond)

Friday, May 14

• Alaina Castillo — Parallel Universe Part 1 (AWAL)
• Alan Jackson — Where Have You Gone (EMI Records Nashville)
• Andy Bell — See My Friends EP (Sonic Cathedral)
• Babe Rainbow — Changing Colours (Eureka Music)
• BALA — Maleza (Century Media Records)
• Benito Gonzalez — Sing To The World (Rainy Days Records)
• Caliban — Zeitgeister (Century Media Records)
• Carl Smith And The Natural Gas Company — Burnin’ (Match Box Records)
• The Chills — Scatterbrain (Fire Records)
• Cory Williams — Bird Mouth (self-released)
• Current Joys — Voyager (Secretly Canadian)
• Damien Jurado — The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa Records)
• The Deep Dark Woods — Changing Faces (Six Shooter Records)
• Denm — Slum Beach Denny (Ineffable Records)
• Fanclubwallet — Hurt Is Boring EP (AWAL)
• Holly Macve — Not The Girl (Piccadilly Records)
• Jesse Terry — When We Wander (Wander Recordings)
• Johanna Samuels — Excelsior! (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
• John Andrews & The Yawns — Cookbook (Woodsist)
• Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane — Lost In The Cedar Wood (Transgressive Records)
• Jorja Smith — Be Right Back (FAMM)
• Juliana Hatfield — Blood (American Laundromat Records)
• Kate Clover — Channel Zero EP (SongVest Records)
• Leider — A Fog Like Liars Loving (Beacon Sound)
• Liar Thief Bandit — Deadlights (The Sign Records)
• Lindsay Ellyn — Queen Of Nothing (Queue Records)
• Magic Island — So Wrong (Mansions and Millions)
• Mandrake Handshake — Shake The Hand That Feeds You EP (Nice Swan Records)
• Matt Berry — The Blue Elephant (Acid Jazz UK)
• Maxine Funke — Seance (A Colourful Storm)
• Michael Hearst — Songs For Unconventional Vehicles (Urban Geek)
• Mob Rich — Why No Why (Republic Records)
• Myles Kennedy –The Ides Of March (Napalm Records)
• Natik Awayez — Manbarani (Sublime Frequencies)
• Never Loved — Over It (Equal Vision Records)
• Night Heron — Instructions For The Night (Terrorbird)
• Okey Dokey — Leaky Sealing EP (Park the Van)
• Old Sea Brigade — Motivational Speaking (Nettwerk)
• Paul Weller — Fat Pop (Volume 1) (SuperDeluxeEdition)
• Riley Downing — Start It Over (New West Records)
• Roan Yellowthorn — Another Life (Blue Élan Records)
• Rob St John — Surface Tension (Pattern & Process Press)
• Rodrigo y Gabriela — Jazz EP (Rubyworks/ATO)
• Ryan Downey — A Ton Of Colours (Dot Dash Recordings)
• Sara Bug — Sara Bug (EggHunt Records/Clandestine)
• Sarah Neufeld — Detritus (One Little Independent Records)
• Sculpture Club — Worth (Funeral Party Records)
• Shaed — High Dive (Photo Finish Records)
• Smol Data — Inconvenience Store (Broken Camera Records)
• Sons Of Kemet — Black To The Future (Impulse! Records)
• The Steel Woods — All Of Your Stones (Woods Music)
• St. Vincent — Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista Recordings)
• Three-Layer Cake — Stove Top (RareNoise)
• Zuli Jr. — Stop It God. (Nurtured Ideas)

Friday, May 21

• 299 — The 299 Game (PNKSLM Recordings)
• Allison Russell — Outside Child (Fantasy Records)
• Animal Years — This Is Part Two Of An Album Called Animal Years EP (self-released)
• Ariel Bart — In Between (Ropeadope)
• Beach Tiger — Yenta (Southern America Records)
• Billie Marten — Flora Fauna (Piccadilly Records)
• Blake Shelton — Body Language (Warner Brothers Nashville/Ten Point Productions)
• Brian Bromberg — A Little Driving Music (Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group)
• Chai — Wink (Sub Pop)
• Charles — Let’s Start A Family Tonight (Babe City Records)
• Claire George — The Land Beyond The Light (Cascine)
• Cloves — Nightmare On Elmfield (Polydor/Interscope)
• Dayglow — Harmony House (AWAL)
• The Devil Wears Prada — ZII EP (Solid State Records)
• Ducks Ltd. — Get Bleak EP (Carpark Records)
• Earth Girl Helen Brown Center For Planetary Intelligence Band — Earth EP (Empty Cellar Records)
• Facs — Present Tense (Trouble in Mind)
• Fiddlehead — Between The Richness (Run For Cover)
• Fly Pan Am — Frontera (Constellation)
• Gary Numan — Intruder (BMG)
• Gavin Preller — There Is Wonder (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Georgia Anne Muldrow — VWETO III (Foreseen Entertainment)
• Gruff Rhys — Seeking New Gods (Rough Trade)
• Herman Frank — Two For A Lie (AFM Records)
• Hippie Death Cult — Circle Of Days (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Holiday Ghosts — North Street Air (Gato Gordo Records)
• Imogen Clark — Bastards EP (MGM/Potts Entertainment.)
• James Francies — Purest Form (Blue Note Records)
• JD McPherson — I’m Still Here (Black Mesa Records)
• Jim McCulloch — When I Mean What I Say (Violette Records)
• John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band — Leftover Feelings (New West Records)
• Jon Allen — … Meanwhile (Monologue Records)
• Lakely — Cold War (Lakely)
• Lambchop — Showtunes (Merge)
• Livingmore — Take Me (Nomad Eel Records)
• Lord Huron — Long Lost (Inertia Music)
• Lydia Ainsworth — Sparkles & Debris (Zombie Cat Records)
• Mannequin Pussy — Perfect EP (Epitaph Records)
• Mara Connor — Decades EP (Ba Da Bing)
• Marinero — Hella Love (Hardly Art)
• Mat Kearney — January Flower (Tomorrow Music/Caroline)
• Mischa Blanos — City Jungle (InFiné)
• The Mistons — World Of Convenience (self-released)
• Nick Jaina — Credo (Fluff & Gravy Records)
• Noomi — Life Aqua EP (self-released)
• Oliver Wood — Always Smilin’ (Honey Jar Records)
• Olivia Rodrigo — Sour (Geffen Records)
• Para One — Machines Of Loving Grace (Animal63)
• Patrick Droney — State Of The Heart (Warner Records)
• Patrick Paige II — If I Fail Are We Still Cool? (Fat Possum Records)
• Pink Chameleons — Peace And Love (Soliti Music)
• Pixel Grip — Arena (Feeltrip Records)
• Pop Evil — Versatile (Entertainment One Music)
• The Reverend Shawn Amos — The Cause Of It All (Continental Record Services)
• Robert Finley — Sharecropper’s Son (Easy Eye Sound)
• Roddy Woomble — Lo! Soul (self-released)
• San Holo — bb u ok? (Bitbird)
• Sinéad Harnett — Ready Is Always Too Late (Sony Music)
• Spang Sisters — Spang Sisters (Bathtime Sounds)
• Starlight Cleaning Co. — Starlight Cleaning Co. (SofaBurn Records)
• Storefront Church — As We Pass (Sargent House)
• Sunny Jain — Phoenix Rise (Sinj Records)
• Swallow The Rat / Clone — Split LP (Headbump Records)
• Sylph — Silver As It Was Before EP (Mute)
• Trapper Schoepp — May Day (Grand Phony Records)
• Trick Or Treat — The Unlocked Songs (Scarlet Records)
• Tuvaband– Growing Pains & Pleasures (Passion Flames)
• Twenty One Pilots — Scaled And Icy (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra)
• Vola — Witness (Mascot Records)
• Waterparks — Greatest Hits (300 Entertainment)
• We Were Sharks — New Low (Revival Recordings)
• Yoo Doo Right — Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose (Mothland)
• Yung Mal — 1.5 Way Or No Way (Alamo Records)
• Zoo Wees — Golden Wings EP (Capitol Records)

Friday, May 28

• 81355 — This Time I’ll Be Of Use (37d03d)
• Allday — Drinking With My Smoking Friends (Believe Music)
• André Either — Further Up Island (Telephone Explosion)
• Aquarian Blood — Bending The Golden Hour (Goner Records)
• Austin Taft — Skeletons (Triple Edge Records)
• Bachelor — Doomin’ Sun (Polyvinyl Records)
• Beth Whitney — Into The Ground (Tone Tree Music)
• Blackberry Smoke — You Hear Georgia (Thirty Tigers)
• Black Midi — Cavalcade (Rough Trade)
• Blood Cultures — Luno (Pack Records)
• Brianna Perry — Boss Bitch Boulevard (Equity Distribution)
• Daniel Davies — Spies EP (Sacred Bones Records)
• Dawn-Song — For Morgan (2144317 Records DK)
• Dispatch — Break Our Fall (Bomber Records/AWAL)
• Elder Island — Swimming Static (self-released)
• Everett Parker — Outbound Travelin’ Crazies (Liberty)
• Ghastly — Mercurial Passages (20 Buck Spin)
• Gizelle Smith — Revealing (Jalapeno Records)
• Gwar — The Disc With No Name EP (P.I.T. Records)
• Hot Mulligan — I Won’t Reach Out To You EP (Wax Bodega)
• James Heather — Modulations: EP2 (Ninja Tune)
• John Errol — Inferno (Flexible Distribution/Terrible Records)
• KD Lang — Makeover (Nonesuch)
• Kele Okereke — The Waves Pt. 1 (KOLA Records/!K7)
• Kezia — Claire EP (Never Seven)
• Lost Division — Cuts And Scars (Inverse Records)
• Lou Barlow — Reason To Live (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Mark Trecka — Acknowledgment (Whited Sepulchre Records)
• Masayoshi Fujita — Bird Ambience (Erased Tapes Records)
• Moby — Reprise (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Mustafa — When Smoke Rises (Regent Park Songs)
• Nathan Micay — Industry OST (LuckyMe)
• Of Mice & Men — Bloom EP (SharpTone Records)
• Penelope Trappes — Penelope Three (Houndstooth)
• Rider & Rolling Thunder — On The Banks Of The Tennessee EP (Defendu Industries)
• River Kittens — Soaking Wet (Create Records)
• Salvador Sobral — BPM (Warner Music International)
• Shannon McNally — The Waylon Sessions (Compass Records)
• Strictly Elizabeth — Contemporary Construction (Data Water Records)
• T-Tops — Staring At A Static Screen (Magnetic Eye Records)
• Thee More Shallows — Dad Jams (Monotreme Records)
• Theo Alexander — Sunbathing Through A Glass Screen (Arts & Crafts)
• Toler Gibson — The Days Before (Rocket Girl Records)
• UV-TV — Always Something (PaperCup Music)
• Wombo — Keesh Mountain EP (Fire Talk)
• Wyldest — Monthly Friend (Hand in Hive)

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