Albums releasing in May 2026

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
May 1	American Football	American Football		Polyvinyl	[518]
	Ana Roxanne	Poem 1		Kranky	[519]
	Asake	M$ney		Empire	[520]
	The Black Keys	Peaches!		Easy Eye Sound Records, Parlophone	[521]
	Blarf	Film Scores for Films That Don't Exist		Stones Throw	[522]
	The Boo Radleys	In Spite of Everything		Boostr Records	[523]
	The Claypool Lennon Delirium	The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy		ATO	[524]
	The Dead Daisies	Live Plus Five			[525]
	Dodgy	Hello Beautiful			[526]
	Durand Bernarr	Bernarr			[527]
	Emma Louise	Sunshine for Happiness			[528]
	Ernest	Deep Blue		Big Loud	[529]
	Geordie Gordon	River Round		Victory Pool Records	[530]
	Haste the Day	Dissenter		Solid State	[531]
	Hiss Golden Messenger	I'm People		Chrysalis	[532]
	Isaiah Rashad	It's Been Awful		TDE, Warner	[533]
	Jesca Hoop	Long Wave Home		Last Laugh Records, Republic of Music Records	[534]
	Kacey Musgraves	Middle of Nowhere		Lost Highway	[535]
	Kneecap	Fenian		Heavenly
	Laibach	Musick		Mute	[536]
	Lair of the Minotaur	I Hail I		The Grind-House Records	[537]
	Maya Hawke	Maitreya Corso		Mom + Pop	[538]
	Melanie C	Sweat		Virgin Music	[539]
	Oteil Burbridge and Lamar Williams Jr.	The Offering		Floki Studios	[540]
	People I've Met	Bunny		Interscope	[541]
	Rita Wilson	Sound of a Woman		Sing it Loud Records	[542]
	Seefeel	Sol.Hz		Warp	[543]
	Sevendust	One		Napalm	[544]
	Tauren Wells	Breathe on It		Sparrow, Capitol CMG	[545]
	Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer	They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza		Silver Current Records	[546]
	Toadies	The Charmer		Spaceflight Records	[547]
	Tori Amos	In Times of Dragons		Universal, Fontana	[548]
	Trials	Hendle		Island Australia	[549]
	Venom	Into Oblivion		Noise, BMG	[550]
	Young the Giant	Victory Garden			[551]
	Youbet	Youbet		Hardly Art	[552]
May 2	Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti	Seismo		PAN	[553]
May 4	Cortis	GreenGreen		Big Hit	[554]
May 5	Alabaster DePlume	Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue		International Anthem	[555]
May 8	Abigail Lapell	Shadow Child			[556]
	Aldous Harding	Train on the Island		4AD	[557]
	Amy Grant	The Me That Remains	Folk pop	Thirty Tigers
	Ashley McBryde	Wild		Warner Music Nashville	[558]
	Basement	Wired		Run for Cover	[559]
	Black Veil Brides	Vindicate		Spinefarm	[560]
	Broken Social Scene	Remember the Humans		Arts & Crafts	[561]
	Chinese American Bear	Dim Sum & Then Some		Moshi Moshi	[562]
	Chris Brown	B.R.O.W.N.			[563]
	Cola	Cost of Living Adjustment		Fire Talk Records	[564]
	Crashdïet	Art of Chaos		Ninetone	[565]
	Croz Boyce (Avey Tare and Geologist)	Croz Boyce		Domino	[566]
	Darkthrone	Pre-Historic Metal		Peaceville	[567]
	Daughn Gibson	Lake Mary Not Mysterious			[568]
	Deb Never	Arcade		Giant Music	[569]
	Draconian	In Somnolent Ruin		Napalm	[570]
	Fire-Toolz	Lavender Networks		Warp	[571]
	The Flatliners	Cold World		Rude Records, Equal Vision	[572]
	Frozen Soul	No Place of Warmth		Century Media	[573]
	Glaive and Kurtains	God Save the Three		Broke	[574]
	Ingested	Denigration		Metal Blade	[575]
	Josh Groban	Cinematic		Reprise	[576]
	Josiah and the Bonnevilles	As Is		Rounder	[577]
	The Jungle Giants	Experiencing Feelings of Joy		Amplifire Music	[578]
	Koyo	Barely Here		Pure Noise	[579]
	The Lemon Twigs	Look for Your Mind!		Captured Tracks	[580]
	Linda Perry	Let It Die Here		670 Records, Kill Rock Stars	[581]
	Little Simz	Sugar Girl			[582]
	Loraine James	Detached from the Rest of You		Hyperdub	[583]
	Lykke Li	The Afterparty		Neon Gold, Futures	[584]
	Max Cooper	Feeling Is Structure			[585]
	Muna	Dancing on the Wall		Saddest Factory, Secretly Records	[586]
	Namasenda	Limbo		Year0001	[587]
	Nicholas Krgovich	Boss Tape		Orindal Records	[588]
	Olof Dreijer	Loud Boom		DH2	[589]
	Panopticon	Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet		Bind Rune, Nordvis	[590]
	Royal & the Serpent	Emptiness Is Godly		Atlantic	[591]
	Runo Plum	Bloom Again		Winspear	[592]
	Shye Ben Tzur and Jonny Greenwood with the Rajasthan Express	Ranjha		World Circuit Records, BMG	[593]
	Social Distortion	Born to Kill		Epitaph	[594]
	Stephen Sanchez	Love, Love, Love		Mercury	[595]
	Thaiboy Digital	Paradise		Bank of Star Sound System	[596]
	War on Women	Time Under Tension		Smartpunk	[597]
	Zsela, Daniel Aged, and Taul Katz	4 Dreams			[598]
May 12	Gun Outfit	Process & Reality		Upset the Rhythm	[599]
May 13	Kwes Darko	God of the Youth			[600]
May 15	49 Winchester	Change of Plans		MCA Nashville, Lucille Records	[601]
	Acid Reign	Daze of the Week			[602]
	The All-American Rejects	Sandbox		Slick Shoes Records	[603]
	Crown Lands	Apocalypse		Inside Out	[604]
	Dead Pony	Eat My Dust!		ADA	[605]
	Drake	Iceman			[606]
	Dua Saleh	Of Earth & Wires		Ghostly International	[607]
	The Field	Now You Exist		Studio Barnhus	[608]
	Genesis Owusu	Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge	Neo soul, alt-pop, synth-punk	Ourness	[609]
	Ikkimel	Poppstar			[610]
	Jungle Rot	Cruel Face of War		Unique Leader Records	[611]
	Kevin Morby	Little Wide Open		Dead Oceans	[612]
	Kreidler	Schemes		Bureau B	[613]
	Maluma	Loco X Volver			[614]
	Martyn	Music for Existing			[615]
	Mirador	The Gathering at Badon Hill		Republic	[616]
	Periphery	A Pale White Dot		3DOT Records	[617]
	Peter Frampton	Carry the Light		UMe	[618]
	Pro-Pain	Stone Cold Anger		Napalm	[619]
	Robin Beck	Living Proof		Frontiers Music	[620]
	Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen	They Call Us the Lucky Ones		The Bingham Recording Company, Thirty Tigers	[621]
	Smerz	Easy EP			[622]
	Spencer Krug	Same Fangs		Pronounced Kroog	[623]
	Tank and the Bangas	The Last Balloon		Verve Forecast	[624]
	Towa Bird	Gentleman		Interscope, Polydor	[625]
	The Virginmarys	Beyond the House of Fires			[626]
May 18	Taeyong	Wyld		SM	[627]
May 19	Balming Tiger	Gongbu			[628]
May 21	JPEGMafia	Experimental Rap		AWAL	[629]
May 22	6lack	Love Is the New Gangsta		LVRN, Interscope	[630]
	A	Prang		Cooking Vinyl	[631]
	Aja Monet	The Color of the Rain		Drink sum wtr	[632]
	Alela Diane	Who's Keeping Time?		Fluff and Gravy Records, Loose Music	[633]
	Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove	Room Jhoom			[634]
	Alt Blk Era	Our World		LAB	[635]
	Armored Saint	Emotion Factory Reset		Metal Blade	[636]
	Ayreon	30th Anniversary - An Amazing Flight Through Time		Music Theories Recordings	[637]
	Bill Orcutt and Mabe Fratti	Almost Waking		Tin Angel	[638]
	Bleachers	Everyone for Ten Minutes		Dirty Hit	[639]
	Cabaret Voltaire	But What Time Is It Really?			[640]
	Crash of Rhinos	Logbook		12:01 Recordings, To Lose la Track, Storm Chasers, Stiff Slack	[641]
	Dimmu Borgir	Grand Serpent Rising		Nuclear Blast	[642]
	Ecca Vandal	Looking for People to Unfollow		Loma Vista	[643]
	Ed O'Brien	Blue Morpho		Transgressive	[644]
	Erik Grönwall	Bad Bones			[645]
	Future Islands	From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth		4AD	[646]
	Le Sserafim	Pureflow Pt. 1			[647]
	Lowertown	Ugly Duckling Union		Summer Shade Records	[648]
	Maisie Peters	Florescence		Gingerbread Man, Asylum	[649][650]
	Marisa Anderson	The Anthology of Unamerican Folk Music		Thrill Jockey	[651]
	Marmozets	Co.War.Dice.		Alcopop!	[652]
	Nashville Pussy	10 Inches of Pussy Season 1		Slinging Pig Records	[653]
	Tim Kasher's Home Phone	Sponges of Experience		Born Losers	[654]
	Visible Cloaks	Paradessence		RVNG Intl.	[655]
	Vision Divine	A Clockwork Reverie		Scarlet	[656]
May 28	'68	They Are Survived			[657]
May 29	Aespa	Lemonade			[658]
	All Them Witches	House of Mirrors			[659]
	Boards of Canada	Inferno		Warp	[660]
	The Bug Club	Every Single Muscle		Sub Pop	[661]
	Dark Divine	Undead Melody		Thriller	[662]
	David Torn	Now I Imagine a Place Not the Same		Kou Records	[663]
	Devin Townsend	The Moth		Inside Out, HevyDevy	[664]
	Dogstar	All In Now		Dillon Street Records	[665]
	Elder	Through Zero		Blues Funeral Records, Stickman Records	[666]
	Francis of Delirium	Run, Run Pure Beauty		Dalliance Recordings	[667]
	Greg Mendez	Beauty Land		Dead Oceans	[668]
	Guided by Voices	Crawlspace of the Pantheon		GBV Inc	[669]
	Iceage	For Love of Grace & the Hereafter		Mexican Summer	[670]
	Kiefer Sutherland	Grey			[671]
	Kurt Vile	Philadelphia's Been Good to Me		Verve Forecast	[672]
	Labrinth	Cosmic Opera Act II			[673]
	Latto	Big Mama		RCA, Steamcut Records	[674]
	Lynch Mob	The Final Ride		Frontiers	[675]
	Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts	As Time Explodes			[676]
	Paul McCartney	The Boys of Dungeon Lane		MPL, Capitol	[677]
	The Real McKenzies	Sings on Yer Bike		Coretex Records	[678]
	Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck	The Fiddle and the Drum		Thirty Tigers	[679]
	Rodney Atkins	True South		Curb	[680]
	Shinedown	Eight		Atlantic	[681]
	Sparta	Cut a Silhouette		Equal Vision, Dine Alone	[682]
	Static Dress	Injury Episode			[683]
	Violet Grohl	Be Sweet to Me		Auroura Records, Republic	[684]
	Willie Nelson	Dream Chaser		Sony Music	[685]