Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of January 17, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

The Anabasis – Back From Being Gone (10T Records)
Steve Aoki – Wonderland (Ultra Records)
Attack Attack! – This Means War (Rise Records)
Jessie Baylin – Little Spark (Blonde Rat)
The Big Pink – Future This (4AD Records) — Steve M.
Bombay Bicycle Club – Different Kind of Fix (A&M)
Cate Le Bon – CYRK (The Control Group) — Robin Smith
Roger Creager – Surrender (Thirty Tigers)
The Devil’s Blood – Thousandfold Epicentre (Metal Blade)
Ani Difranco – Which Side Are You On (Righteous Babe)
Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur (Zoe/Rounder)
Matt Elliot – The Broken Man (Ici d’ailleurs)
Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood of Colour (Hopeless Records)
Farsot – Insects (Prophecy)
Girls Generation – Boys (Interscope Records)
Anthony Green – Beautiful Things (Photo Finish)
Guided By Voices – Let’s Go Eat the Factory (Guided By Voices) — Robin Smith
Howler – America Give Up (Rough Trade)
Kells – Anachromie (Season of Mist)
Koncept – Awaken (Soulspazm Records)
Lantlos – Agape (Prophecy Productions)
The Life & Times – No One Loves You Like I Do (Slimstyle Records)
Loincloth – Iron Balls of Steal (Southern Lord)
Martina McBride – Hits and More (Sony Nashville)
Modern English – Ricochet Days (4AD Records)
Amaia Montero – 2 (Sony U.S. Latin)
Nothnegal – Decadence (Season of Mist)
Anthony Raneri – New Cathedrals (Gumshoe Records) — DaveyBoy
Walter Rose – Cast Your Stone (Walter Rose)
Secrets – The Ascent (Rise Records)
Anneke Van Giersbergen – Everything Is Changing (PIAS Records)

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Album Streams:

Jessie Baylin – Little Spark

The Big Pink – Future This

Ani Difranco – Which Side Are You On

Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur

Enter Shikari – Flash Flood of Colour

Anthony Green – Beautiful Things

Anneke Van Giersbergen – Everything Is Changing

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SputnikMusic’s Most Played Artists of the Week (according to Last.FM):

Staff:

01) The National
02) The Roots
03) The Weeknd
04) Loma Prieta
05) Laura Stevenson and The Cans
06) Ghostface Killah
07) M83
08) Tool
09) Raekwon
10) Okkervil River

Contributors:

01) The War On Drugs
02) Drake
03) Manchester Orchestra
04) Brian Eno
05) Deftones
06) M83
07) Dead Language
08) Arafel
09) Wu-Tang Clan
10) Fell Voices

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