Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 09, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

The Acacia Strain – Death Is The Only Mortal (Rise Records)
A.C. Newman – Shut Down The Streets (Matador Records) – Rudy Klapper
All Time Low – Don’t Panic (Hopeless Records)
Alphabet Backwards – Little Victories (Highline Records)
August Burns Red – Sleddin’ Hill: A Holiday Album (Solid State Records)
Barbara Streisand – Release Me (Columbia)
Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence (Metal Blade)
The Birthday Massacre – Hide And Seek (Metropolis Records)
Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Cosmosophy (Season Of Mist)
Break & Survival – Stano/Going Over (Dispatch)
Caustic – The Man Who Couldn’t Stop (Metropolis Records)
Chrome Canyon – Elemental Themes (Stone Throw)
Coheed & Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension (Xenon)
Cold Showers – Love And Regret (Dais Records)
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph) – SowingSeason
The Cringe – Hiding In Plain Sight (Listen Records)
Disclosure – The Face: Remixes (Greco Roman)
Electric Six – Absolute Pleasure (Metropolis Records)
Ellie Goulding – Halcyon (Interscope Records)
Freelance Whales – Diluvia (Mom & Pop Music)
Hostage Calm – Please Remain Calm (Red General Catalog)
Indigo – Neveah (On The Edge)
Inhale Exhale – Movement (Red Cord Records)
Italians Do It Better (VA) – After Dark 2 (Italians Do It Better)
Jeff Lynne – Long Waves (Frontiers)
John Cale – Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood (Domino)
Kaki King – Glow (Velour Recordings)
Killawatt & Core – Black Mamba/Akusala (Artikal Music)
Kiss – Monster (UMe)
Kryptic Minds – Elements/Rolled Out And Back (Osiris Music)
Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams (Iamsound)
Lo’Jo – Cinema El Mundo (World Village)
Luther – Let’s Get You Somewhere Else (Chunksaah Records)
Mark Mallman – Double Silhouette (Eagle’s Golden Tooth)
Martin Eden – Dedicate Function (Lefse Records)
Mellowhype – Numbers (Odd Future)
Meshell Ndegeocello – Pour une âme souveraine (Naive)
Naytronix – Dirty Glow (Plug Research)
Onward To Olympus – Indicator (Facedown)
PAWS – Cokefloat! (Fat Cat Records)
Prism – Two Hearts (Sub Frequencies Records)
Rick Springfield – Songs For The End Of The World (UMe)
The Script – #3 (Epic) – SowingSeason
Seaming – Seaming (Lumin)
Seven Kingdoms – The Fire Is Mine (Nightmare Records/Sony)
S.P.Y. – What The Future Holds (Hospital Records)
Suzanne Vega – Close-Up 4: Songs Of Family (Razor & Tie)
Sylosis – Monolith (Nuclear Blast America)
A Tale Of Two Cities – New Horizons (A Tale Of Two Cities) – Davey Boy
Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular Records)
Telekinesis & N.Phect – Machines/Blackwhite (Obsessions)
Texas In July – Texas In July (Equal Vision Records)
Thus:Owls – Harbours (Hoob Records)
Trash Talk – 119 (Odd Future)
Troubled Coast – Awake And Empty (Pure Noise)
Ty Segall – Twins (Drag City)
Undercroft – Ruins Of Gomorrah (Season Of Mist)
The Wallflowers – Glad All Over (Columbia)
Xzibit – Napalm (Open Bar Entertainment)
Young Guru – Essentials Vol. 1 (Okayplayer Records)

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Album Streams:

The Acacia Strain – Death Is The Only Mortal

All Time Low – Don’t Panic

Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind

The Cringe – Hiding In Plain Sight

Freelance Whales – Diluvia

Hostage Calm – Please Remain Calm

Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams

Luther – Let’s Get You Somewhere Else

Mark Mallman – Double Silhouette

Meshell Ndegeocello – Pour une âme souveraine

Naytronix – Dirty Glow

PAWS – Cokefloat!

The Script – #3

Sylosis – Monolith

Tame Impala – Lonerism

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

Staff :

01) Converge
02) Godspeed You! Black Emperor
03) Titus Andronicus
04) Death Cab For Cutie
05) The Gaslight Anthem
06) The Mountain Goats
07) My Bloody Valentine
08) How To Dress Well
09) Frank Ocean
10) Bon Iver

Contributors:

01) Converge
02) Enslaved
03) Deftones
04) Danko Jones
05) Godspeed You! Black Emperor
06) Stars Of The Lid
07) Meshuggah
08) Grouper
09) Antonio Vivaldi
10) Social Distortion