Albums releasing in May 2017

 

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
May 1	Triple H	199X	K-pop	Cube Entertainment	[178]
May 5	The Afghan Whigs	In Spades	Alternative rock	Sub Pop	[179]
	Alma	Ma peau aime	Pop	Warner Music Group	[180]
	Andrew Rayel	Moments	Trance	Armada
	Anja Nissen	Where I Am	Pop	Universal Music Australia
	Arve Henriksen	Towards Language	Jazz	Rune Grammofon	[181]
	At the Drive-In	in•ter a•li•a	Post-hardcore	Rise
	Big Walnuts Yonder	Big Walnuts Yonder	Indie rock	Sargent House
	Blondie	Pollinator	Alternative rock, new wave, post-punk revival	BMG
	Brother Ali	All the Beauty in This Whole Life	Hip hop	Rhymesayers Entertainment
	Café Tacuba	Jei Beibi	Latin alternative, Latin rock, folk rock	Melotrón	[182]
	Carl Craig	Versus	Techno, classical	InFiné	[183]
	Cassper Nyovest	Thuto	Hip hop, trap, R&B	Family Tree
	Chris Stapleton	From A Room: Volume 1	Country	Mercury Nashville
	Colt Ford	Love Hope Faith	Country rap	Average Joes
	Day Wave	The Days We Had			[184]
	Diana Krall	Turn Up the Quiet	Jazz	Verve
	Forest Swords	Compassion	Experimental, electronic	Ninja Tune
	Full of Hell	Trumpeting Ecstasy	Deathgrind, sludge metal, noise	Profound Lore
	Grateful Dead	May 1977: Get Shown the Light	Rock	Rhino
	Johannes Oerding	Kreise	Pop, pop rock	Columbia
	Juana Molina	Halo	Folktronica	Crammed Discs
	Kasabian	For Crying Out Loud	Electronic rock, electronica, neo-psychedelia	Columbia, Sony Music
	Kid Ink	7 Series	Hip hop	Tha Alumni Music Group, 88 Classic, RCA
	Logic	Everybody	Hip hop	Visionary Music Group, Def Jam	[185]
	Mac DeMarco	This Old Dog	Indie rock, psychedelic rock	Captured Tracks	[186]
	Moon Duo	Occult Architecture Vol. 2		Sacred Bones	[187]
	Motionless in White	Graveyard Shift	Gothic metal, nu metal, industrial metal	Roadrunner
	Natalia Lafourcade and Los Macorinos	Musas	Folk	RCA, Sony Music
	Ozomatli	Non-Stop: Mexico to Jamaica	Reggae	Cleopatra
	Perfume Genius	No Shape	Art pop, chamber pop	Matador
	Pond	The Weather	Psychedelic rock, neo-psychedelia	Marathon Artists
	Robin Trower	Time and Emotion		V-12 Records	[188]
	Russ	There's Really a Wolf	Hip hop, R&B	Russ My Way Inc., Columbia
	Slowdive	Slowdive	Dream pop, shoegaze	Dead Oceans
	Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'	TajMo	Blues	Concord	[189]
	Various artists	Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story – An Album to Benefit War Child	Americana, country, rock	Legacy	[190]
May 8	Grateful Dead	Cornell 5/8/77	Rock	Rhino	[191]
May 10	Psy	4X2=8	K-pop	YG
	Siti Nurhaliza	SimetriSiti	Pop, R&B	Siti Nurhaliza Productions, Universal, EMI
May 11	Jlin	Black Origami	Electronica, footwork	Planet Mu
May 12	B.o.B	Ether	Hip hop	Label No Genre, Grand Hustle, Empire
	Dean Lewis	Same Kind of Different	Pop, indie pop	Island, Universal Music Australia
	Dreamcar	Dreamcar		PLOF, Columbia
	Girlpool	Powerplant		Anti-	[192]
	Harry Styles	Harry Styles	Soft rock	Erskine, Columbia
	Helene Fischer	Helene Fischer	Schlager, pop	Polydor
	J Hus	Common Sense	Afroswing, UK rap, dancehall	Black Butter	[193]
	LeToya Luckett	Back 2 Life	R&B	eONE
	Machine Gun Kelly	bloom	Hip hop	Bad Boy, Geffen, Interscope
	Paramore	After Laughter	New wave, pop rock, synth-pop	Fueled by Ramen, Warner Bros.
	Paul Weller	A Kind Revolution	Pop rock	Parlophone
	Pwr Bttm	Pageant	Queercore, indie rock, garage rock	Polyvinyl, Big Scary Monsters
	R5	New Addictions	Pop rock	Hollywood	[194]
	Seether	Poison the Parish	Rock	Canine Riot, Concord
	Todd Rundgren	White Knight	Synth-pop, rock	Cleopatra
	Warrant	Louder Harder Faster	Hard rock, heavy metal, glam metal	Frontiers
	Zac Brown Band	Welcome Home	Country	Elektra
May 15	Twice	Signal	K-pop, dance	JYP, KT Music
	VIXX	Shangri-La	K-pop	Jellyfish Entertainment, CJ E&M Music
May 16	The I.L.Y's	Bodyguard	Punk rock	Castle Face	[195]
	XXXTentacion	Revenge	Hip hop, trap, punk rap	Bad Vibes Forever, Empire	[196]
May 17	Sayuri	Mikazuki no Koukai	J-pop	Ariola Japan	[197]
May 18	T-Pain and Lil Wayne	T-Wayne	Hip hop, R&B	Nappy Boy	[198]
May 19	!!!	Shake the Shudder	Dance-punk	Warp
	Aldous Harding	Party		4AD
	Chris Price	Stop Talking	Indie pop, rock	Omnivore
	David Banner	The God Box	Hip hop	A Banner Vision
	Do Make Say Think	Stubborn Persistent Illusions	Post-rock	Constellation
	DragonForce	Reaching into Infinity	Power metal, speed metal	Metal Blade
	Erasure	World Be Gone	Synth-pop	mute
	Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G.	The King & I	Hip hop, R&B	Rhino
	Flor	Come Out. You're Hiding		Fueled by Ramen	[199]
	Jane Weaver	Modern Kosmology		Fire	[200]
	The Kooks	The Best of... So Far	Rock	Virgin, Astralwerks
	Linkin Park	One More Light	Pop, pop rock, electropop	Warner
	MisterWives	Connect the Dots	Indie pop	Photo Finish, Republic
	The Mountain Goats	Goths	Indie rock, indie folk	Merge
	The Night Flight Orchestra	Amber Galactic	Progressive rock	Nuclear Blast
	Papa Roach	Crooked Teeth	Alternative metal, hard rock, alternative rock	Eleven Seven Music
	Radiophonic Workshop	Burials in Several Earths	Electronic	Room 13
	Rascal Flatts	Back to Us	Country	Big Machine
	Rawsrvnt	Shut It Down	Hip hop, Christian hip hop, alternative hip hop	Soul Deep
	Snoop Dogg	Neva Left	West Coast hip hop, g-funk, gangsta rap	Doggy Style, Empire
	The Underachievers	Renaissance	East Coast hip hop	RPM MSC
	Wear Your Wounds	Dunedevil	Ambient, electronic		[201]
May 21	The Basics	In the Rude!	Rock, alternative	The Three Basics
May 22	iKon	New Kids: Begin	K-pop	YG
May 24	Exo-CBX	Girls	J-pop	Avex Trax
	Nogizaka46	Umarete Kara Hajimete Mita Yume	J-pop	Sony Music
	Tofubeats	Fantasy Club		Unborde	[202]
May 26	Alestorm	No Grave But the Sea	Power metal, folk metal	Napalm	[203]
	Bryson Tiller	True to Self	R&B	RCA	[204]
	The Charlatans	Different Days	Madchester, Britpop	BMG	[205]
	Danzig	Black Laden Crown	Heavy metal, hard rock	Evilive, Nuclear Blast	[206]
	Frenzal Rhomb	Hi-Vis High Tea	Punk rock, pop punk, melodic hardcore	Shock, Fat Wreck Chords	[207]
	Gucci Mane	Droptopwop	Hip hop, trap	GUWOP, Atlantic	[208]
	In Hearts Wake	Ark	Metalcore	UNFD	[209]
	Kraftwerk	3-D The Catalogue	Electronic		[210]
	The Letter Black	Pain	Christian rock, hard rock, alternative rock	EMP Music Group	[211]
	Lil Yachty	Teenage Emotions	Hip hop	Quality Control, Capitol, Motown	[212]
	Louis Hayes	Serenade for Horace	Jazz	Blue Note	[213]
	New Order	NOMC15			[214]
	Rhapsody of Fire	Legendary Years	Symphonic power metal	AFM	[215]
	Shakira	El Dorado	Latin pop	Sony Music Latin	[216]
	The Unthanks	The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake	Folk	Rabble Rouser	[217]
May 29	Baek A-yeon	Bittersweet	K-pop	JYP	[218]