New Music Friday, May 2, 2025

New Music Friday - The High Note with Shaun Smith

It’s the first New Music Friday of May and the release radar is heating up along with the weather on May 2, 2025.

Hip-hop heads will be thrilled by “Conversational Pieces,” a full-length collaboration between Boldy James and Real Bad Man.

Car Seat Headrest returns with “The Scholars.”

PUP unleashes “Who Will Look After the Dogs?”

Canadian punk legends Propagandhi drop “At Peace.”

Singer-songwriter Samantha Crain offers “Gumshoe.”

As always the entire list of new albums released today, Friday, May 2, 2025 is below in no particular order. My most anticipated albums are in bold.

Let me know what you’re listening to on social media @highnoteblog and in the comments below.

New Album Releases – Friday, May 2, 2025

Andy Bell – Ten Crowns
Anthony Naples – Scanners
Benny the Butcher – Excelsior
Blondshell – If You Asked for a Picture
Boldy James and Real Bad Man – Conversational Pieces
Briston Maroney – Jimmy
Car Seat Headrest – The Scholars
Eric Church – Evangeline vs. the Machine
The Farm – Let the Music (Take Control)
The Flower Kings – Love
Flume and JPEGMafia – We Live in a Society
Fuerza Regida – 111xpantia
Hate – Bellum Regiis
James Krivchenia – Performing Belief
Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Rose
Key Glock – Glockaveli
Låpsley – I’m a Hurricane I’m a Woman in Love
Lights – A6
Lucius – Lucius
Maddie and Tae – Love and Light
Model/Actriz – Pirouette
Pet Symmetry – Big Symmetry
Press Club – To All the Ones That I Love
Propagandhi – At Peace
Puddle of Mudd – Kiss the Machine
PUP – Who Will Look After the Dogs?
Suzanne Vega – Flying with Angels
Yung Lean – Jonatan
Wretch 32 – Home?
Mei Semones – Animaru
The Night Mail and Louis Philippe – The Road To The Sea
Enrique Bunbury – Cuentas Pendientes
Samantha Crain – Gumshoe
Jolie Laide – Creatures