For the Record: May

So May is pretty much over bar the long weekend and it's easily been the best month for record releases of the year so far. So many of discs on the list below will almost certainly feature on my end of year list with Foals and LCD Soundsystem likely to be jostling for the top spot alongside the stunning opening statements from Male Bonding and Active Child.

Foals - Total Life Forever (Album of the Month)
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
The National - High Violet
jj - No3
Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
The Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards
Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology
Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
Active Child - Curtis Lane EP
Wild Nothing - Gemini
James Blake - CMYK.

Also recommended: Flying Lotus, Steve Mason, Little Girls, Holy Fuck, Trash Talk, Deftones, Kelis, Hole, Born Ruffians, Silver Columns.

For the Record: May