Albums releasing in May 2015

 

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
May 1	Best Coast	California Nights	Indie pop, alternative rock	Harvest
	Ciara	Jackie	R&B	Epic
	Hiatus Kaiyote	Choose Your Weapon	Neo soul, alternative R&B	Flying Buddha Records
	In Hearts Wake	Skydancer	Metalcore	UNFD
May 4	Tech N9ne	Special Effects	Hip hop	Strange Music
	Metz	II	Noise rock	Sub Pop
	Mumford & Sons	Wilder Mind	Alternative rock, indie rock, post-punk	Gentlemen of the Road, Island
	My Morning Jacket	The Waterfall	Indie rock, psychedelic rock	ATO
	Nosaj Thing	Fated	Electronic, hip hop	Innovative Leisure, Timetable Records
May 5	Chris Stapleton	Traveller	Country	Mercury Nashville
	Fireflight	Innova	Christian alternative rock, electropop, indie rock
	Kamasi Washington	The Epic	Jazz	Brainfeeder
	Kamelot	Haven	Power metal, progressive metal, symphonic metal	Napalm, Universal, Warner Music
	Korpiklaani	Noita	Folk metal	Nuclear Blast
	Rose Windows	Rose Windows		Sub Pop	[23]
May 8	Róisín Murphy	Hairless Toys	Electronic, deep house	PIAS
May 9	Per Mathisen Trio	Ospitalita Generosa		Alessa	[24]
May 12	BoA	Kiss My Lips	K-pop, ballad, dance	SM, KT Music
	The Early November	Imbue	Alternative rock, pop punk, emo	Rise
	Hinder	When the Smoke Clears	Hard rock, post-grunge	The End
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Quarters!	Psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, jazz-rock	Heavenly, Flightless
	Patrick Watson	Love Songs for Robots		Domino, Secret City
	Prurient	Frozen Niagara Falls	Noise, industrial, power electronics	Profound Lore
	Snoop Dogg	Bush	West Coast hip hop	i Am Other, Columbia
	Sóley	Ask the Deep		Morr Music	[25]
	Steve Aoki	Neon Future II	EDM	Ultra Music, Dim Mak
	The Tallest Man on Earth	Dark Bird Is Home	Folk	Dead Oceans
May 15	Ana & Milton Popović	Blue Room	Blues, soul	ArtisteXclusive records
	Brandon Flowers	The Desired Effect	Pop, electropop	Island
	Conchita Wurst	Conchita	Pop, baroque pop	Sony Music
	Hermitude	Dark Night Sweet Light		Elefant Traks	[26]
	Jamie Foxx	Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses	R&B	RCA
	Zedd	True Colors	Progressive house, complextro, electro house	Interscope
May 17	Twenty One Pilots	Blurryface	Alternative hip hop, electropop, hip hop	Fueled by Ramen
May 18	Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!	Get Lost, Find Yourself	Pop punk	Fearless
	Haste the Day	Coward	Metalcore, Christian metal, hard rock	Solid State
	Hot Chip	Why Make Sense?	Synth-pop	Domino
	Mariah Carey	#1 to Infinity	R&B, pop, gospel	Epic, Columbia, Legacy
	Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds	The Weather Below	Rock, alternative	Party Fowl Records, Thirty Tigers
May 19	Coal Chamber	Rivals	Nu metal, groove metal	Napalm
	Faith No More	Sol Invictus	Alternative rock	Reclamation Records, Ipecac
	Holly Herndon	Platform	Electronic, experimental pop	4AD
	Shamir	Ratchet	R&B, disco	XL
	Silverstein	I Am Alive in Everything I Touch	Post-hardcore	Rise
	The Story So Far	The Story So Far	Pop punk	Pure Noise
May 22	Alesso	Forever	Progressive house, electro house	Def Jam
	Colleen Hewett	Black & White		Bilarm Music Pty Ltd
	Daniel Johns	Talk	Neo soul	Eleven
May 25	Ash	Kablammo!	Alternative rock	earMUSIC
	Modestep	London Road	Alternative rock, drum and bass, dubstep	INgrooves
	Nocturnal Sunshine	Nocturnal Sunshine			[27]
	Peatbog Faeries	Blackhouse	Celtic fusion, experimental	Peatbog Records
	The Vaccines	English Graffiti	Indie rock, pop rock	Columbia
	Will Young	85% Proof		Island
May 26	A$AP Rocky	At. Long. Last. A$AP	Hip hop	RCA
	Cory Marks	This Man	Country, country rock	Big Star Recordings
	Kara	In Love	Dance-pop	DSP
	Lifehouse	Out of the Wasteland	Alternative rock, pop rock, power pop	Ironworks
	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	Multi-Love	Indie rock, indie pop, psychedelic rock	Jagjaguwar
May 27	The Darkness	Last of Our Kind	Hard rock	Canary Dwarf
May 28	CLC	Question	K-pop, dance-pop	Cube
	Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment	Surf	Hip hop, neo soul, R&B
May 29	Florence + The Machine	How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful	Indie pop, art rock, alternative pop	Island
	Heather Nova	The Way It Feels	Alternative rock, indie rock	Embassy of Music
	Helloween	My God-Given Right	Power metal	Nuclear Blast
	Jamie xx	In Colour	Electronica, house	Young Turks
	Jason Derulo	Everything Is 4	R&B, dance, pop	Beluga Heights, Atlantic
	Paulini	Come Alive	Pop	Fortitude Group, Ambition, Decca
	Seventeen	17 Carat	Dance-pop	Pledis