Albums releasing in May 2025

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
May 2	Aly & AJ	Silver Deliverer		Aly & AJ Music	[209]
	Andy Bell	Ten Crowns	Eurodisco, gospel	Crown Recordings
	Anthony Naples	Scanners		ANS Records	[210]
	Benny the Butcher	Excelsior		Black Soprano Family	[211]
	Blondshell	If You Asked for a Picture		Partisan	[212]
	Boldy James and Real Bad Man	Conversational Pieces		Real Bad Man	[213]
	Briston Maroney	Jimmy		Atlantic	[214]
	Car Seat Headrest	The Scholars		Matador
	DDG	Blame the Chat		Epic	[215]
	Dope Lemon	Golden Wolf		BMG	[216]
	Eric Church	Evangeline vs. the Machine		EMI Nashville	[217]
	Esther Rose	Want	Alternative country rock, pop	New West	[218]
	The Farm	Let the Music (Take Control)		Modern Sky Records	[219]
	The Flower Kings	Love	Progressive rock	Inside Out Music
	Flume and JPEGMafia	We Live in a Society		Flume	[220]
	Fuerza Regida	111xpantia		Rancho Humilde, Street Mob Records, Sony Music Latin	[221]
	Hate	Bellum Regiis		Metal Blade
	I-dle	We Are I-dle		Cube	[222][223]
	James Krivchenia	Performing Belief		Planet Mu	[224]
	Jenny Hval	Iris Silver Mist	Art pop	4AD
	Key Glock	Glockaveli		Paper Route Empire, Republic	[225]
	Lael Neale	Altogether Stranger	Rock	Sub Pop
	Låpsley	I'm a Hurricane I'm a Woman in Love		Her Own Recordings	[226]
	Lights	A6		VMG	[227]
	Loscil	Lake Fire		Kranky
	Lucius	Lucius		Fantasy	[228]
	Maddie & Tae	Love & Light		Mercury Nashville	[229]
	Mei Semones	Animaru	J-pop, bossa nova, indie	Bayonet
	Model/Actriz	Pirouette	Dance-punk, noise rock	True Panther
	Pet Symmetry	Big Symmetry		Storm Chasers LTD, Asian Man	[230]
	Press Club	To All the Ones That I Love			[231]
	Propagandhi	At Peace		Epitaph	[232]
	Puddle of Mudd	Kiss the Machine		Pavement Entertainment
	PUP	Who Will Look After the Dogs?		Rise, Little Dipper
	Sally Potter	Anatomy		Bella Union
	Samantha Crain	Gumshoe	Folk rock	Real Kind Records
	Suzanne Vega	Flying with Angels		Cooking Vinyl	[233]
	Wretch 32	Home?		AWAL
	Yung Lean	Jonatan		World Affairs	[234]
May 6	Men I Trust	Equus Callabus			[235]
May 7	Mike and Tony Seltzer	Pinball II		10k Records	[236]
May 8	Erika de Casier	Lifetime	Trip hop	Independent Jeep Music	[237]
May 9	The Amazons	21st Century Fiction	Alternative rock, hard rock	Nettwerk	[238]
	Arcade Fire	Pink Elephant		Columbia	[239]
	Behemoth	The Shit Ov God	Black metal	Nuclear Blast
	Billy Woods	Golliwog	Horrorcore	Backwoodz Studioz
	Blake Shelton	For Recreational Use Only		Wheelhouse	[240]
	Counting Crows	Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!		BMG	[241]
	Forrest Frank	Child of God II		River House Records	[242]
	Ghost Bath	Rose Thorn Necklace	Metal	Nuclear Blast
	The Head and the Heart	Aperture		Verve Forecast	[243]
	Holy Holy	Sweet Bitter Sweet		Wonderlick, Sony Music Australia	[244]
	I'm with Her	Wild and Clear and Blue		Rounder, Universal
	Kali Uchis	Sincerely	Neo soul, dream pop, R&B	Capitol
	Kara-Lis Coverdale	From Where You Came		Smalltown Supersound
	The Kooks	Never/Know		VMG	[245]
	Lefty Gunplay and JasonMartin	Can't Get Right		OTR Records, 50million, Empire	[246]
	Little Feat	Strike Up the Band		Hot Tomato Records	[247]
	M83	A Necessary Escape		Other Suns	[248]
	Maren Morris	Dreamsicle		Columbia	[249]
	Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke	Tall Tales	Electronic	Warp
	Mclusky	The World Is Still Here and So Are We		Ipecac
	Peter Murphy	Silver Shade		Metropolis
	PinkPantheress	Fancy That		Warner UK
	Preoccupations	Ill at Ease		Born Losers Records	[250]
	Sailorr	From Florida's Finest			[251]
	Sleep Token	Even in Arcadia	Alternative metal, alternative R&B, djent	RCA	[252]
	Spacey Jane	If That Makes Sense		AWAL	[253]
	Tetrarch	The Ugly Side of Me		Napalm
May 12	Meovv	My Eyes Open VVide		The Black Label	[254]
May 15	Psychedelic Porn Crumpets	Carpe Diem, Moonman		What Reality?, Marathon Artists	[255]
	Snoop Dogg	Iz It a Crime?		Death Row
May 16	Aminé	13 Months of Sunshine		10K	[256]
	Arm's Length	There's a Whole World Out There		Pure Noise
	Billy Nomates	Metalhorse		Invada
	Bury Tomorrow	Will You Haunt Me, with That Same Patience		Music for Nations
	Carolyn Wonderland	Truth Is		Alligator	[257]
	The Callous Daoboys	I Don't Want to See You in Heaven		MNRK Heavy
	Chuck D	Radio Armageddon		Def Jam	[258]
	Damiano David	Funny Little Fears		Sony Music Italy, Arista	[259]
	Dan Mangan	Natural Light		Arts & Crafts	[260]
	Ezra Furman	Goodbye Small Head		Bella Union
	Friendship	Caveman Wakes Up	Indie rock	Merge
	Grails	Miracle Music		Temporary Residence	[261]
	Guitarricadelafuente	Spanish Leather		Sony Music Spain	[262]
	Jin	Echo	Pop rock	Big Hit
	Lido Pimienta	La Belleza		Anti-	[263]
	Lucy Bedroque	Unmusique		DeadAir	[264]
	M(h)aol	Something Soft		Merge
	Matt Maltese	Hers	Chamber pop	The Orchard
	MØ	Plæygirl		Sony Music	[265]
	Morgan Wallen	I'm the Problem		Big Loud
	Novelists	Coda	Progressive metalcore	ACKOR Music	[266]
	Pelican	Flickering Resonance		Run for Cover	[267]
	Peter Doherty	Felt Better Alive		Strap Originals
	Rico Nasty	Lethal		Fueled by Ramen
	Robin Trower	Come and Find Me		Provogue	[268][269]
	Sleep Theory	Afterglow		Epitaph	[270]
	Sofi Tukker	Butter			[271]
	Spill Tab	Angie		Because Music
	Tee Grizzley	Forever My Moment		300	[272]
	Tune-Yards	Better Dreaming		4AD	[273]
	Tyne-James Organ	The Other Side		Dew Process	[274]
	Xzibit	Kingmaker		Greenback Records	[275]
May 19	Baekhyun	Essence of Reverie		INB100	[276]
	I-dle	We Are		Cube	[277]
	Shamir	Ten		Kill Rock Stars	[278]
May 22	El Cuarteto de Nos	Puertas			[279][280]
May 23	Boldy James and Your Boy Posca	Magnolia Leflore		Near Mint	[281]
	Don Felder	The Vault – Fifty Years of Music		Frontiers	[282]
	The Grogans	Stagger		Cousin Will Record	[283]
	Hinder	Back to Life		Evil Teen Records	[284]
	Home Is Where	Hunting Season		Wax Bodega	[285]
	Joe Jonas	Music for People Who Believe in Love		Republic	[286]
	Louise	Confessions			[287]
	Marc Ribot	Map of a Blue City		New West	[288]
	Morcheeba	Escape the Chaos		100% Records	[289]
	MSPaint	No Separation	Synth-punk, rap rock	Convulse Records	[290]
	Onslaught	Origins of Aggression		Reigning Phoenix	[291]
	Robert Forster	Strawberries		Tapete	[292]
	Skunk Anansie	The Painful Truth		FLG Records	[293]
	Sparks	Mad!		Transgressive	[294]
	Sports Team	Boys These Days		Bright Antenna, Distiller Records	[295][296]
	Stereolab	Instant Holograms on Metal Film		Duophonic UHF Disks, Warp
	Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'	Room on the Porch		Concord
	These New Puritans	Crooked Wing		Domino	[297]
May 26	Seventeen	Happy Burstday		Pledis	[298]
	Red Velvet – Irene & Seulgi	Tilt		SM	[299]
May 28	Tash Sultana	Return to the Roots			[300]
May 30	Aesop Rock	Black Hole Superette		Rhymesayers
	Alan Sparhawk & Trampled by Turtles	Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles		Sub Pop	[301]
	Anderson East	Worthy		Rounder	[302]
	Anyma	The End of Genesys		Interscope	[303]
	Ben Kweller	Cover the Mirrors		Noise Company	[304]
	The Budos Band	VII		Diamond West	[305]
	Caroline	Caroline 2		Rough Trade
	Civic	Chrome Dipped		ATO	[306]
	Cwfen	Sorrows	Post-punk	New Heavy Sounds
	Desolated	Finding Peace		MLVLTD
	Dylan Scott	Easy Does It			[307]
	Garbage	Let All That We Imagine Be the Light		BMG	[308]
	Goddess	Goddess		Bella Union
	GoldLink	Enoch			[309]
	Grace Potter	Medicine		Hollywood	[310]
	Grateful Dead	Enjoying the Ride	Rock	Rhino	[311]
	The Haunted	Songs of Last Resort		Century Media	[312]
	Illuminati Hotties	Nickel on the Fountain Floor		Hopeless	[313]
	Jacob Alon	In Limerence		Island, EMI
	Kathryn Joseph	We Were Made Prey		Rock Action
	Luh Tyler	Florida Boy			[314]
	Matt Berninger	Get Sunk		Book's Records, Concord
	Miley Cyrus	Something Beautiful		Columbia
	The Minus 5	Oar On, Penelope!	College rock	Yep Roc
	Obongjayar	Paradise Now		September Recordings	[315]
	Photographic Memory	I Look at Her and Light Goes All Through Me		DeadAir	[316]
	Planning for Burial	It's Closeness, It's Easy		The Flenser	[317]
	Rome Streetz and Conductor Williams	Trainspotting			[318]
	Sally Shapiro	Ready to Live a Lie		Italians Do It Better
	Shura	I Got Too Sad for My Friends	Art pop	PIAS
	Swans	Birthing		Mute, Young God	[319]
	Trivax	The Great Satan	Black metal	Osmose	[320]
	Ty Segall	Possession		Drag City	[321]
	Vildhjarta	Där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar		Century Media	[322]
	Will Epstein and Dave Harrington	Wine Picture		Maximum Overdub	[323]
	Yeule	Evangelic Girl Is a Gun		Ninja Tune	[324]