Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 15, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

American Gospel – Tall Tales Vol.1 (American Gospel)
Beach House – Bloom (Sub Pop)
Bersarin Quartett – II [Physical Release] (Denovali Records)
Best Coast – The Only Place (Mexican Summer) — Robin Smith
Blaq Dahlia – Dark Flower (Skinny Entertainment Records)
BT – Laptop Symphony [Digital Only] (Black Hole Recordings)
Cherri Bomb – This is the End of Control (Hollywood Records) — DaveyBoy
City Rain – Watch Out [EP] (Self Released)
Cornershop – Urban Turban (Ample Play Records)
The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull (Wichita)
Will Dutta – Parergon (Just Music)
Fixers – We’ll Be The Moon (Mercury Records)
Garbage – Not Your Kind of People [iTunes Exclusive] (StunVolume)
Godsmack – Live & Inspired (Universal Republic)
Hasta La Vista Social Club – Melt (Inverse Records)
Hospitals – Asleep [EP] (Tangled Talk)
Hot Water Music – Exister (Rise Records) — Adam Thomas
Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band – Perlas (Fire Records)
Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music (WILLIAMS STREET) — Sobhi Youssef
Lahmia – Into the Abyss (Bakerteam Records)
Meiko – The Bright Side (Fantasy)
mewithoutYou – Ten Stories (Pine Street) — Robin Smith
MV & EE – Space Homestead (Woodsist)
Nachtvorst – Silence (Code666 Records)
Nedry – In a Dim Light Remixed (Monotreme Records)
Willie Nelson – Heroes (Sony Legacy)
The Nighthawks – Damn Good Time (Severn)
Nightmare – The Burden Of God (AFM Records)
Carlos Nino – Aquariusssssss (Porter Records)
Pantera – Vulgar Display Of Power (Deluxe Edition) [CD/DVD] (Rhino)
PHILM – Harmonic (Ipecac Recordings)
Rye Rye – Go! Pop! Bang! (Interscope Records)
Santana – Shape Shifter (Starfaith)
Shadows Fall – Fire From the Sky (Razor & Tie)
Slugabed – Time Team (Ninja Tune) — Deviant
Sonata Arctica – Stones Grow Her Name {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Squarepusher – Ufabulum (Warp Records) — Deviant
Tenacious D – Rize of the Fenix (Columbia)
Triggerman – Learning to Lie (1124 Records)
Violens – True (Slumberland Records)
White Fence – Family Perfume, Vol. 2 (Woodsist)
Stephane Wrembel – Origins (Self Released)

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Album Streams:

Beach House – Bloom

Blaq Dahlia – Dark Flower

Cherri Bomb – This is the End of Control

Garbage – Not Your Kind of People

Hot Water Music – Exister

Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band – Perlas

Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music

mewithoutYou – Ten Stories

Willie Nelson – Heroes

PHILM – Harmonic

Santana – Shape Shifter

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

Staff:

01) Silversun Pickups
02) Japandroids
03) Animal Collective
04) Mastodon
05) Bob Dylan
06) Maps & Atlases
07) Beck
08) Bon Iver
09) The Smashing Pumpkins
10) Mount Eerie

Contributors:

01) Against Me!
02) Sufjan Stevens
03) Julee Cruise
04) Mirrorring
05) The Avalanches
06) Rotting Christ
07) Diablo
08) Nujabes
09) Toro Y Moi
10) All Pigs Must Die

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