After the colder months of the year have passed, May 2025 features a load of new album releases. There is also something that should make everyone happy. You like pop? You got it. Metal? There is that, too.
In fact, there are also notable releases. Sleep Token will produce their latest record, and it seems a bit, well...less metal. Maybe the B-sides will be great.
Heck, even country artist Eric Church has an interestingly named album. The record almost sounds like an alt-rock record, which it shouldn't be. Or will it? Church can sometimes fool us.
Full album release schedule for May
May 2
- Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture
- Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars
- Eric Church - Evangeline Vs. The Machine
- James Krivchenia - Performing Belief
- Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist
- Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger
- Låpsley - I’M A HURRICANE I’M A WOMAN IN LOVE
- Lights - A6
- Lucius - Lucius
- Model/Actriz - Pirouette
- Propagandhi - At Peace
- PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs?
- Samantha Crain - Gumshoe
- Suzanne Vega - Flying With Angels
- Wretch 32 - Home?
May 9
- Arcade Fire - Pink Elephant
- billy woods - GOLLIWOG
- Blake Shelton - For Recreational Use Only
- Boyfriend - In The Garden
- Counting Crows - Butter Miracle, the Complete Sweets!
- Deradoorian - Ready For Heaven
- Kali Uchis - Sincerely,
- Little Simz - Lotus
- Maren Morris - D R E A M S I C L E
- McLusky - The World Is Still Here And So Are We
- Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia
- The Head and the Heart - Aperture
- Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard - Tall Tales
This might be the most fantastic new release week of the year so far. Arcade Fire, who will perform on Saturday Night Live near the release date, and their latest album should be intriguing. Sleep Token could lose a lot of fans with their newest (or gain a ton more). And what the heck is up with the Counting Crows' most recent?
May 16
- Aminé - 13 Months Of Sunshine
- Billy Nomates - Metalhorse
- Chuck D - Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon
- Damiano David - FUNNY little FEARS
- Dan Mangan - Natural Light
- Ezra Furman - Goodbye Small Head
- Jlin - Echo
- Lido Pimienta - La Belleza
- Matt Maltese - Hers
- MØ - Plæygirl
- Rico Nasty - LETHAL
- tUnE-yArDs - Better Dreaming
May 21
- Lana Del Rey - The Right Person Will Stay
Del Rey is so special she gets her own day, it seems. Let's hope the record is worth it.
May 23
- Emptyset - Dissever
- Home Is Where - Hunting Season
- Joe Jonas - Music For People Who Believe In Love
- Marc Ribot - Map Of A Blue City
- Skunk Anansie - The Painful Truth
- Sparks - MAD!
- Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film
- These New Puritans - Crooked Wing
May 30
- Alan Sparhawk - With Trampled By Turtles
- Amy Millan - I Went to Find You
- caroline - caroline 2
- Foxwarren - 2
- Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
- Kathryn Joseph - WE WERE MADE PREY.
- Matt Berninger - Get Sunk
- Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful
- Mt. Joy - Hope We Have Fun
- Obongjayar - Paradise Now
- Sally Shapiro - Ready To Live A Lie
- Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends
- Ty Segall - Possession
- yeule - Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
Miley Cyrus? Hmmm... But Berninger's record, sans his band The National, might be the steal of the week.