Friday’s 22 May release wave lines up Bleachers, Aja Monet, Ed O’Brien, Fakemink, Gun Outfit and more

21 May also functions as the final setup day before a broad Friday release wave. Pitchfork’s release guide lists several notable 22 May albums and projects, including Aja Monet’s The Color of the Rain, Bleachers’ Everyone for Ten Minutes, Duval Timothy and Carlos Niño’s Rain Music, Ecca Vandal’s Looking for People to Unfollow, Ed O’Brien’s Blue Morpho, Fakemink’s Terrified, Gun Outfit’s Process & Reality, Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt’s Almost Waking, Marisa Anderson’s The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Ted Lucas’ Images of Life and Visible Cloaks’ Paradessence.

That is a wide map of independent and alternative music: spoken-word jazz, polished indie-pop, ambient collaboration, punk-adjacent pop, Radiohead-adjacent art rock, UK rap, guitar-based underground rock, avant-garde cello/guitar improvisation, archival folk reinterpretation and electronic experimentalism all landing on the same day.

For readers planning weekend listening, the message is simple: 21 May may be lighter on exact-date indie album drops, but it is the runway for one of the month’s more interesting Friday slates. Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/new-album-releases/