Well, we made it through May. Or at least that’s how it looks from here. Assuming that things don’t go straight to hell in the next few hours, here are the albums, EPs and singles you’ve got to look forward to this week. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at the last minute. It’s not like I’m in charge of anything.
Ace Of Hearts | Monophobia
Adjust the Sails | The Worst of Adjust the Sails
Æther Realm | Redneck Vikings From Hell
Afterimage | Temperance
A Grape Dope | Arthur King Presents A Grape Dope: Backyard Bangers
Ambrose Akinmusire | on the tender spot of every calloused moment
Alluvial Fans | Earth To Astronaut
America | Half Century
Amnesia Scanner | Tearless
Aquilo | Sober EP
Blake Ashlin | Collective Dreaming
Kyle Avallone | Last Minute Man
Max B | Charly EP
Baauer | Planet’s Mad
John Baumann | Country Shade
Bruno Bavota | Apartment Songs Volume One
Bhajan Bhoy | Bless Bless
The Blue Nile | High Vinyl Reissue
Bab L’ Bluz | Nayda!
Dekel Bor | Let Love Rule
Bruce Brubaker and Max Cooper | Glassforms
Buffalo Fuzz | Buffalo Fuzz Volume II
Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver | Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1
Casa Loma | This Is Coping EP
Catbite / Omnigone | Split Single
Caustic Reverie | The Flooded Assembly
Margaret Chavez | Into An Atmosphere
Chloe x Halle | Ungodly Hour
The Choir | Last Call: Live At The Music Box
Chotzä | Tüüfuswärk
Chromeo | Quarantine Casanova
The Corner Laughers | Temescal Telegraph
Covet | Technicolor
Currents | The Way It Ends
Dance Loud | The Moment
Elijah Daniel | The Final Album 2
Dätcha Mandala | Hara
DC the Don | Come as You Are
Deeper | Secret Tour Tape
Camille Delean | Cold House Burning
Dellafuente | Descanso en Poder
Delta Maid | Katie
Andrea Laszlo De Simone | Immensità EP
Janet Devlin | Confessional
The Devonns | The Devonns
C. Diab | White Whale
Dexter Dine | Symmetrics
Dion | Blues With Friends
Iann Dior | I’m Gone EP
Discovery Zone | Remote Control
Dr. John | Ske Dat De Dat Vinyl Reissue
Tristan Dolce | Eras
Doomshakalaka | Doomshakalaka
Double Françoise | Les Bijoux
Joy Downer | Paper Moon
Slake Dransky | Colors
Eben | Honeydew EP
Ebonivory | The Long Dream 1
Edge of Desire | Lost EP
Fraser Edwards | The Architect
Emanuel | Session 1: Dillusion EP
End | Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face
Endling | Proper Nouns
Everyday Heroes | A Tale of Sin and Sorrow
Exhumed and Gruesome | Twisted Horror
Nima Fakhrara | Becky Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Field Day | 2.0
Paisley Fields | Electric Park Ballroom
Fisher | Freaks EP
Flatbush Zombies | Now More Than Ever
The Fox Sisters | Bust Out!
Frost* | Others
Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs! | 65 Million Beers Ago
The Gay Agenda | Penetrating
G-Eazy | Everything’s Strange Here
Geist & The Sacred Ensemble | Waning Hymns
Inara George | The Youth of Angst EP
Geyser | Cover Your Eyes EP
The Ghost Inside | The Ghost Inside
Ghost Work | You’ll Be Buried With
Gogo Penguin | Gogo Penguin
Gorlvsh | New City Vibe
Liz Graham | Brave Like An Arrow
Gridfailure | Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery II
Groupe RTD | The Dancing Devils of Djibouti
Haken | Virus
Armand Hammer | Shrines
The Harmed Brothers | Across the Waves
Corey Harper | Overcast EP
Hellbound Glory | Pure Scum
Hinds | The Prettiest Curse
Ize | Ize Cream Man
Leifur James | Angel in Disguise
Jared Grabb Among Thieves | Among Thieves
Sarah Jarosz | World On The Ground
JayDaYoungan | Baby23
Jireel | Sex Känslor
Jockstrap | Wicked City
Molly Joyce | Breaking and Entering
Jumo | Et le vent ?
Junko Beat | Satirifunk
Junkowl | Making Out With My Death
Kaleo | Surface Sounds
Paul Kalkbrenner | Speak Up
Key! | I Love You Say It Back
Khary | This is Weird
Gordon Koang | Music In Exile Remixed EP
Matt Lang | More
LA Priest | Gene
Riz La Vie | Feed EP
Lay | Lit
The Lazy Eyes | EP1
Sondre Lerche | Patience
Lithics | Tower of Age
Matt Lovell | Nobody Cries Today
Nick Lowe with Los Straitjackets | Lay It On Me
LTZ RealName | Next Uo To Bat
Iris Lune | lovelosslove
LYAM | N_O Caller ID
Bruno Major | To Let a Good Thing Die
Make Them Suffer | How to Survive a Funeral
Katie Malco | Failures
Marietta | Prazepam St.
Material Girl | Tangram
Charles May & Annette May Thomas | Songs Our Father Used To Sing Reissue
Michael McDermott | What in the World
Nicole Mercedes | Look Where Where You’re Going
Milano | Winston Wolf
Moar | Boom Bap Mentality
Modern Nature | Annual
Momma | Two of Me
Mondoriviera | Il Tempio degli Uomini Granchio
Mountain | Colours EP
Mr Eazi | One Day You Will Understand EP
Mt. Joy | Rearrange Us
Elliot James Mulhern | Free Thoughts
Crystal Murray | Easy Like Before (Object Blue Remix)
Muzz | Muzz
Michael Nau | Demo Versions, 2014 to 2017
Naxen | Towards the Tomb of Times
Nerve | Auto-Sabotagem: NOTWAN Remixes
Heidi Newfield | The Barfly Session
New Fries | The Idea Of Us
Emilie Nicolas | Let Her Breathe
No Age | Goons Be Gone
Nobide | Enso EP
Ohmme | Fantasize Your Ghost
ohtrapstar | A Star Was Born
Mark Olson & Ingunn Ringvold | Magdalen Accepts The Invitation
156/Silence | Irrational Pull
Ormskrik | Ormskrik
Pay For Pain | Pay For Pain EP
Peakes | Pre Invented World EP
Plight Radio | When Everything Burns Within
Roly Porter | Kistvaen
Brigid Mae Power | Head Above the Water
Powerwolf | Best Of The Blessed
The Prison Music Project | Long Time Gone
Quest Ensemble | The Other Side
Re-Armed | Ignis Aeternum
The Rentals | Q36
RMR | Drug Dealing Is a Lost Art
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | Sideways to New Italy
Roxy Girls | A Wealth of Information
Run The Jewels | Run The Jewels 4
Sammie | Such Is Life..
Pascal Schumacher | SOL
Murat Sebert | Positive or Not Positive
Serene Dark | Enantiodromia
Phil Seymour | Archive Series Vol. 6: If You Don’t Want My Love
Shaw & Grossfeldt | Klavier
Short-Haired Domestic | A song in Latin... A song in Hindi...
Frank Sinatra | Nice ‘N’ Easy: 60th Anniversary Edition
SIAN | X
-(16)- | Dream Squasher
Natalie Slade | Control
Sleeper | Smart 25th Anniversary Edition
Smoove & Turrell | Stratos Bleu
Soft Plastics | 5 Dreams
SOHN | Live with the Metropole Orkest
Sonic Boom | All Things Being Equal
Sorge | Sorge EP
Special Deluxe | Optimism Wells EP
Spiteful Bum | Jot Down the Dope
The Spitfires | Life Worth Living
Brad Stank | Kinky Om
The Staple Singers | Let’s Do It Again Soundtrack
The Staple Singers | Pass It On Reissue
Stepson | Help Me Help You
Colin Stetson | Barkskins Soundtrack
Bill Stewart, John Scofield & Steve Swallow | Swallow Tales
Suff Daddy & Eloquent | Misery Funk
Swampmeat Family Band | Muck!
The Sword | Chronology 2006-2018
The Sword | Conquest of Kingdoms
Whitney Tai | Apogee
Tenci | My Heart Is An Open Field
This Will Destroy You | Vespertine
Jennifer Touch | Behind the Wall
Devin Townsend | Empath Ultimate Edition
Joey Trap | Playlist for the End of the World
Trash Talk | Squalor
Treazon | I Shouldn’t Be Alive
Trickfinger | She Smiles Because She Presses the Button
Twice | More & More
Under The Reefs Orchestra | Under The Reefs Orchestra
The Unfit | The Unfit
Used Cassettes | Used Cassettes
Gizmo Varillas | Out of the Darkness
Various Artists | Dub Ditch Picnic: Blue Circle
Various Artists | Heavy Pandemic
Various Artists | NOW Country Classics ’90s
Virginity | Death To The Party EP
Cate Von Csoke | Almoon EP
Waiting For London | Worth The Wait EP
Joe Louis Walker | Blues Comin’ On
Paul Wall & Lil Keke | Slab Talk
Warduna | Kvitravn
Jessie Ware | What’s Your Pleasure?
Juan Wauters | Más Canciones de la Onda
Westerman | Your Hero Is Not Dead
Blanco White | On the Other Side
The Who | Live at Hyde Park Vinyl Reissue
Vinyl Williams | Azure
Witching | Vernal
Witness | Doom II
Wolf & Chain | An Honest Mistake EP
Working Men’s Club | Working Men’s Club
Dizzy Wright & Demrick | Blaze With Us 2
Wray | Stream of Youth/Blank World
Yoste | A Few Brief Moments EP
Lolo Zouaï | Beautiful Lies