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

Albums releasing in April 2015

 

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
April 3	All Time Low	Future Hearts	Pop punk, pop rock, power pop	Hopeless
	Turbowolf	Two Hands	Hard rock	Search and Destroy Records
April 6	East India Youth	Culture of Volume	Indietronica, synth-pop, experimental	XL
	Young Fathers	White Men Are Black Men Too	Alternative hip hop, indie rock, pop	Big Dada
April 7	Brian Wilson	No Pier Pressure	Soft rock	Capitol
	David Sanborn	Time and the River	Jazz, blues	Okeh	[16]
	Duda Brack	É	Alternative rock	Duda Brack
	Flo Rida	My House	Pop rap	Poe Boy, Atlantic
	Matt and Kim	New Glow	Indie pop, electronic	Virgin EMI
	The Mountain Goats	Beat the Champ	Indie rock, indie folk	Merge
	Secrets	Renditions	Acoustic	Rise
	Toro y Moi	What For?	Indie rock, psychedelic rock, indie pop	Carpark
	Trickfinger	Trickfinger	Acid house	Acid Test
	Waters	What's Real			[17]
	Waxahatchee	Ivy Tripp	Indie rock	Merge, Wichita
April 8	Ayumi Hamasaki	A One	J-pop	Avex Trax
	Paper Aeroplanes	Joy			[18]
April 10	Halestorm	Into the Wild Life	Hard rock	Atlantic
	Mel Parsons	Drylands	Folk-pop, indie folk	Cape Road Recordings, Border Music
April 12	Shayne Ward	Closer	Pop	MPG
April 13	Beth Hart	Better Than Home	Blues rock, blues, soul	Provogue, Mascot
	Calexico	Edge of the Sun	Alternative rock, indie folk, Americana	Anti-
	Tyler, the Creator	Cherry Bomb	Hip hop	Odd Future
	The Wombats	Glitterbug	Indie rock, alternative dance, post-punk	14th Floor
April 14	Dance Gavin Dance	Instant Gratification	Post-hardcore, experimental rock	Rise
	Dwight Yoakam	Second Hand Heart	Country	Warner Bros. Nashville
	Eels	Live at Royal Albert Hall	Indie rock	E Works, PIAS
	Hidden in Plain View	Animal	Emo, pop punk, post-hardcore	Rise
	Matanza	Pior Cenário Possível	Cowpunk, psychobilly	Deckdisc
	Reba McEntire	Love Somebody	Country	Nash Icon
	Sabrina Carpenter	Eyes Wide Open	Pop	Hollywood
	Shawn Mendes	Handwritten	Pop rock	Island
	Various artists	Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson	Tropical	Universal Music
April 15	Ayaka	Rainbow Road		A Station	[19]
April 16	Young Thug	Barter 6	Hip hop	300 Entertainment, Atlantic, Rich Gang
April 17	Alabama Shakes	Sound & Color	Blues rock, roots rock, soul, Southern rock	ATO, MapleMusic, Rough Trade
	Apocalyptica	Shadowmaker	Cello rock	Better Noise, Eleven Seven
	The Black Sorrows	Endless Sleep Chapter 46	Blues rock, soul	Head Records
	The Black Sorrows	Endless Sleep Chapter 47	Blues rock, soul	Head Records
	Duplex	Én	Jazz	NorCD	[20]
	Kiske/Somerville	City of Heroes	Heavy metal, hard rock	Frontiers
	Stan Walker	Truth & Soul	Pop	Sony Music Australia
April 18	Built to Spill	Untethered Moon	Indie rock	Warner Bros.
April 20	Passenger	Whispers II	Indie pop, indie folk	Black Crow Records
	Squarepusher	Damogen Furies	Drum and bass, IDM, drill 'n' bass	Warp
April 21	10 Years	From Birth to Burial	Alternative metal	Palehorse Records
	Alesana	Confessions	Metalcore, post-hardcore	Revival Recordings
	Dustin Kensrue	Carry the Fire	Indie rock	Vagrant
	Great Lake Swimmers	A Forest of Arms	Folk rock	Nettwerk
	Mew	+ -	Alternative rock	PIAS
	Passion Pit	Kindred	Synth-pop, indie pop, alternative	Columbia
	San Fermin	Jackrabbit		Downtown	[21]
	Tom DeLonge	To the Stars... Demos, Odds and Ends	Punk rock, alternative rock	To the Stars
	Yelawolf	Love Story	Hip hop	Slumerican, Shady, Interscope
April 27	Blur	The Magic Whip	Alternative rock, indie rock	Parlophone
	The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Musique de Film Imaginé	Neo-psychedelia	A Records
	From First to Last	Dead Trees	Post-hardcore	Sumerian	[22]
April 28	Raekwon	Fly International Luxurious Art	Hip hop	Ice H2O, Caroline
	Theory of a Deadman	Angel Acoustic EP	Acoustic	Roadrunner, 604
	Tyler Farr	Suffer in Peace	Country	Columbia Nashville
	Zac Brown Band	Jekyll + Hyde	Southern rock	Big Machine, Republic
April 29	BTS	The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 1	Hip hop, dance-pop, R&B	Big Hit
	Gülşen	Bangır Bangır	Dance, pop	Doğan Music Company
	Whitesnake	The Purple Album	Hard rock, blues rock	Frontiers