Albums releasing in May 2026

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
May 1	American Football	American Football	Post-rock, emo	Polyvinyl
	Ana Roxanne	Poem 1		Kranky	[503]
	Asake	M$ney		Empire
	The Black Keys	Peaches!		Easy Eye Sound, Warner
	Blarf	Film Scores for Films That Don't Exist		Stones Throw	[504]
	Bonner Kramer and Thurston Moore	They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza	Ambient, avant-rock	Silver Current
	The Boo Radleys	In Spite of Everything		Boostr Records	[505]
	The Claypool Lennon Delirium	The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy		ATO	[506]
	The Dead Daisies	Live Plus Five			[507]
	Dodgy	Hello Beautiful			[508]
	Durand Bernarr	Bernarr			[509]
	Emma Louise	Sunshine for Happiness			[510]
	Ernest	Deep Blue		Big Loud	[511]
	Geordie Gordon	River Round		Victory Pool Records	[512]
	Haste the Day	Dissenter		Solid State	[513]
	Hiss Golden Messenger	I'm People		Chrysalis	[514]
	Isaiah Rashad	It's Been Awful		TDE, Warner
	Jesca Hoop	Long Wave Home		Last Laugh Records, Republic of Music Records	[515]
	Kacey Musgraves	Middle of Nowhere		Lost Highway
	Kneecap	Fenian		Heavenly
	Laibach	Musick		Mute	[516]
	Lair of the Minotaur	I Hail I		The Grind-House Records	[517]
	Maya Hawke	Maitreya Corso		Mom + Pop	[518]
	Melanie C	Sweat	Dance	Virgin Music
	Oteil Burbridge and Lamar Williams Jr.	The Offering		Floki Studios	[519]
	People I've Met	Bunny		Interscope	[520]
	Rachael Fahim	Who You Are		Island Australia	[521]
	Rita Wilson	Sound of a Woman		Sing it Loud Records	[522]
	Seefeel	Sol.Hz		Warp
	Sevendust	One	Alternative metal, hard rock	Napalm
	Tauren Wells	Breathe on It		Sparrow, Capitol CMG	[523]
	Toadies	The Charmer		Spaceflight Records	[524]
	Tori Amos	In Times of Dragons		Universal, Fontana
	Trials	Hendle		Island Australia	[525]
	Venom	Into Oblivion		Noise, BMG	[526]
	Young the Giant	Victory Garden			[527]
	Youbet	Youbet		Hardly Art	[528]
	Zara Larsson	Midnight Sun: Girls Trip		Sommer House, Epic
May 2	Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti	Seismo		PAN	[529]
May 4	Cortis	GreenGreen		Big Hit	[530]
	Babymonster	Choom		YG	[531]
May 5	Alabaster DePlume	Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue		International Anthem	[532]
May 7	Blue Lab Beats	The Blue Lab Beats Show			[533]
	Carín León	Muda			[534]
May 8	Abigail Lapell	Shadow Child			[535]
	Aldous Harding	Train on the Island		4AD
	Amy Grant	The Me That Remains	Folk pop	Thirty Tigers
	Ashley McBryde	Wild		Warner Music Nashville	[536]
	Basement	Wired		Run for Cover	[537]
	Black Veil Brides	Vindicate		Spinefarm	[538]
	Broken Social Scene	Remember the Humans		Arts & Crafts	[539]
	Chinese American Bear	Dim Sum & Then Some		Moshi Moshi	[540]
	Chris Brown	Brown	R&B	RCA, CBE
	Cola	Cost of Living Adjustment		Fire Talk Records	[541]
	Crashdïet	Art of Chaos		Ninetone	[542]
	Croz Boyce (Avey Tare and Geologist)	Croz Boyce		Domino	[543]
	Darkthrone	Pre-Historic Metal		Peaceville	[544]
	Daughn Gibson	Lake Mary Not Mysterious			[545]
	Deb Never	Arcade		Giant Music	[546]
	Draconian	In Somnolent Ruin		Napalm	[547]
	Fire-Toolz	Lavender Networks		Warp	[548]
	The Flatliners	Cold World		Rude Records, Equal Vision	[549]
	Frozen Soul	No Place of Warmth		Century Media	[550]
	Glaive and Kurtains	God Save the Three		Broke	[551]
	Ingested	Denigration		Metal Blade	[552]
	Josh Groban	Cinematic		Reprise	[553]
	Josiah and the Bonnevilles	As Is		Rounder	[554]
	The Jungle Giants	Experiencing Feelings of Joy		Amplifire Music	[555]
	Koyo	Barely Here		Pure Noise	[556]
	The Lemon Twigs	Look for Your Mind!	Power pop, psychedelic rock	Captured Tracks
	Linda Perry	Let It Die Here		670 Records, Kill Rock Stars	[557]
	Little Simz	Sugar Girl			[558]
	Loraine James	Detached from the Rest of You		Hyperdub	[559]
	Lykke Li	The Afterparty		Neon Gold, Futures
	Max Cooper	Feeling Is Structure			[560]
	Muna	Dancing on the Wall	Pop	Saddest Factory, Secretly Records
	Namasenda	Limbo		Year0001	[561]
	Neil Diamond	Wild at Heart		Capitol, Universal	[562]
	Nicholas Krgovich	Boss Tape		Orindal Records	[563]
	Olof Dreijer	Loud Boom		DH2	[564]
	Panopticon	Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet		Bind Rune, Nordvis	[565]
	Royal & the Serpent	Emptiness Is Godly		Atlantic	[566]
	Runo Plum	Bloom Again		Winspear	[567]
	Seu Jorge	The Other Side			[568]
	Shye Ben Tzur and Jonny Greenwood with the Rajasthan Express	Ranjha		World Circuit Records, BMG	[569]
	Social Distortion	Born to Kill	Punk rock, rock and roll	Epitaph
	Stephen Sanchez	Love, Love, Love		Mercury	[570]
	Thaiboy Digital	Paradise		Bank of Star Sound System	[571]
	War on Women	Time Under Tension		Smartpunk	[572]
	Zsela, Daniel Aged, and Taul Katz	4 Dreams			[573]
May 11	Nmixx	Heavy Serenade		JYP, Republic	[574]
May 12	Gun Outfit	Process & Reality		Upset the Rhythm	[575]
May 13	Kwes Darko	God of the Youth			[576]
May 14	Lady Gaga	Apple Music Live: Mayhem Requiem		Interscope
	Leroy	Status Update Music			[577]
	Porches	Mask			[578]
	Salem	Red Dragon			[579]
May 15	49 Winchester	Change of Plans		MCA Nashville, Lucille Records	[580]
	Acid Reign	Daze of the Week			[581]
	The All-American Rejects	Sandbox		Slick Shoes Records
	Bnyx	Genesis FM			[582]
	Brooke Fraser	Eat	Worship	Sparrow, Academy Records, Capitol CMG	[583]
	Crown Lands	Apocalypse		Inside Out	[584]
	Dead Pony	Eat My Dust!		ADA	[585]
	Drake	Habibti	R&B	OVO, Republic
	Drake	Iceman	Hip-hop	OVO, Republic
	Drake	Maid of Honour	Dance	OVO, Republic
	Dua Saleh	Of Earth & Wires		Ghostly International	[586]
	The Field	Now You Exist		Studio Barnhus	[587]
	Genesis Owusu	Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge	Neo soul, alt-pop, synth-punk	Ourness
	Ikkimel	Poppstar			[588]
	Jungle Rot	Cruel Face of War		Unique Leader Records	[589]
	Kevin Morby	Little Wide Open		Dead Oceans
	Kreidler	Schemes		Bureau B	[590]
	Maluma	Loco X Volver			[591]
	Martyn	Music for Existing			[592]
	Mirador	The Gathering at Badon Hill		Republic	[593]
	Mya	Retrospect		Planet 9
	Periphery	A Pale White Dot		3DOT Records	[594]
	Peter Frampton	Carry the Light		UMe	[595]
	Pro-Pain	Stone Cold Anger		Napalm	[596]
	Robin Beck	Living Proof		Frontiers Music	[597]
	Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen	They Call Us the Lucky Ones		The Bingham Recording Company, Thirty Tigers	[598]
	Smerz	Easy EP			[599]
	Spencer Krug	Same Fangs		Pronounced Kroog	[600]
	Tank and the Bangas	The Last Balloon		Verve Forecast	[601]
	Towa Bird	Gentleman		Interscope, Polydor	[602]
	The Virginmarys	Beyond the House of Fires			[603]
May 18	Itzy	Motto		JYP, Republic
	Taeyong	Wyld		SM	[604]
May 19	Balming Tiger	Gongbu			[605]
	I.O.I	I.O.I: Loop		Swing	[606]
	Xikers	Route Zero: The Ora		KQ	[607]
May 21	The Coral	388			[608]
	JPEGMafia	Experimental Rap	Experimental hip-hop	AWAL
May 22	6lack	Love Is the New Gangsta		LVRN, Interscope	[609]
	A	Prang		Cooking Vinyl	[610]
	Aja Monet	The Color of the Rain		Drink sum wtr	[611]
	Alela Diane	Who's Keeping Time?		Fluff and Gravy Records, Loose Music	[612]
	Ali Sethi and Gregory Rogove	Room Jhoom			[613]
	Alt Blk Era	Our World		LAB	[614]
	Armored Saint	Emotion Factory Reset		Metal Blade	[615]
	Ayreon	30th Anniversary - An Amazing Flight Through Time		Music Theories Recordings	[616]
	Bill Orcutt and Mabe Fratti	Almost Waking		Tin Angel	[617]
	Bladee	Sulfur Surfer			[618]
	Bleachers	Everyone for Ten Minutes		Dirty Hit	[619]
	Cabaret Voltaire	But What Time Is It Really?			[620]
	Christian Nodal	Bandera Blanca		JG Music, Sony Music México	[621]
	Crash of Rhinos	Logbook		12:01 Recordings, To Lose la Track, Storm Chasers, Stiff Slack	[622]
	Dimmu Borgir	Grand Serpent Rising		Nuclear Blast	[623]
	Dua Lipa	Live from Mexico			[624]
	Ecca Vandal	Looking for People to Unfollow		Loma Vista	[625]
	Ed O'Brien	Blue Morpho		Transgressive
	Erik Grönwall	Bad Bones			[626]
	Fakemink	Terrified		EtnaVeraVela	[627]
	Future Islands	From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth		4AD	[628]
	Le Sserafim	Pureflow Pt. 1		Source, YG Plus, Geffen	[629]
	Lowertown	Ugly Duckling Union		Summer Shade Records	[630]
	Maisie Peters	Florescence		Gingerbread Man, Asylum	[631][632]
	Marisa Anderson	The Anthology of Unamerican Folk Music		Thrill Jockey	[633]
	Marmozets	Co.War.Dice.		Alcopop!	[634]
	Moses Sumney and Joseph Shirley	Is God Is		Lakeshore	[635]
	Nashville Pussy	10 Inches of Pussy Season 1		Slinging Pig Records	[636]
	Tim Kasher's Home Phone	Sponges of Experience		Born Losers	[637]
	Veeze	Y'all Won			[638]
	Visible Cloaks	Paradessence		RVNG Intl.	[639]
	Vision Divine	A Clockwork Reverie		Scarlet	[640]
May 26	And2ble	Sequence 01: Curiosity		YH	[641]
	Eddy Current Suppression Ring	In Light of Recent Events			[642]
	Feeble Little Horse	Bitknot			[643]
May 27	Ayase	Dialogue		Echoes, Sony Japan	[644]
May 28	'68	They Are Survived			[645]
May 29	Aespa	Lemonade		SM, Kakao	[646]
	All Them Witches	House of Mirrors			[647]
	Boards of Canada	Inferno		Warp
	The Bug Club	Every Single Muscle		Sub Pop	[648]
	Dark Divine	Undead Melody		Thriller	[649]
	David Torn	Now I Imagine a Place Not the Same		Kou Records	[650]
	Devin Townsend	The Moth		Inside Out, HevyDevy	[651]
	Digitalism	Optimism			[652]
	Dogstar	All In Now		Dillon Street Records	[653]
	Ear	Rumspringa		A24 Music	[654]
	Elder	Through Zero		Blues Funeral Records, Stickman Records	[655]
	Francis of Delirium	Run, Run Pure Beauty		Dalliance Recordings	[656]
	Greg Mendez	Beauty Land		Dead Oceans	[657]
	Guided by Voices	Crawlspace of the Pantheon		GBV Inc	[658]
	Iceage	For Love of Grace & the Hereafter		Mexican Summer	[659]
	Joakim Berg	Framtiden som aldrig blev av	Pop rock	UMG
	Kiefer Sutherland	Grey			[660]
	Kim Petras	Detour			[661]
	Kurt Vile	Philadelphia's Been Good to Me		Verve Forecast	[662]
	Labrinth	Cosmic Opera Act II			[663]
	Latto	Big Mama		RCA, Steamcut Records	[664]
	Lenka	Good Days	Pop	Skipalong	[665]
	Lynch Mob	The Final Ride		Frontiers	[666]
	Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts	As Time Explodes			[667]
	Paul McCartney	The Boys of Dungeon Lane		MPL, Capitol
	The Real McKenzies	Sings on Yer Bike		Coretex Records	[668]
	Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck	The Fiddle and the Drum		Thirty Tigers	[669]
	Rodney Atkins	True South		Curb	[670]
	Shinedown	Eight	Hard rock	Atlantic
	Sparta	Cut a Silhouette		Equal Vision, Dine Alone	[671]
	Static Dress	Injury Episode			[672]
	Turnover	Down on Earth			[673]
	Violet Grohl	Be Sweet to Me	Alternative rock, grunge	Auroura Records, Republic
	Willie Nelson	Dream Chaser	Country	Sony Music