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It may already be six weeks into 2011, but we’re not going to let that stop us from giving the users of SputnikMusic a voice. Between now and the end of the month you can go here to vote for your favorite albums of 2010. Just make sure you read the rules before voting.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 15 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

An Aesthetic Anaesthetic – Ghosts in the Red Wilderness (Bandcamp)
Armageddon Dildos – Untergrund (ALFA-MATRIX)
A Skylit Drive – Identity on Fire (Fearless Records)
Asobi Seksu – Fluorescence (Polyvinyl Records)
Awol One & Factor – The Landmark (Fake Four)
Lisa Batiashvili – Echoes of Time (Deutsche Grammophon)
Beans – End It All (Anticon)
Bright Eyes – The People’s Key (Saddle Creek) — Adam Thomas
Brown Recluse – Evening Tapestry (Slumberland Records)
Chixdiggit! – Safeways Here We Come (Fat Wreck Chords)
Close To Home – Never Back Down (Razor & Tie)
Common Man Down – Self Addiction [EP] (Bit Riot Records)
Cowboy Junkies – Demons (Razor & Tie)
Darkest Era – Last Caress of Light (Metal Blade)
DC the Midi Alien – Avengers Airwaves (Brick Records)
The Dears – Degeneration Street (Dangerbird Spain)
Death – Sound of Perseverance [Reissue] (Relapse)
Deicide – To Hell with God (Century Media)
Destruction – Day Of Reckoning {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
DJ Nu-Mark – Take Me With You (Mochilla)
Dornenreich – Flammentriebe (Discipline/Sadolust Records) — Jared Ponton
Dr. Acula – Slander (Victory Records)
Drive-By Truckers – Go-Go Boots (ATO RECORDS/RED) — Joseph Viney
Emma Hill and her Gentleman Callers – Meet me at the Moon (Kuskokwim Records)
Emmure – Speaker of the Dead (Victory Records)
The Famine – Architects of Guilt (Solid State Records)
Flotsam and Jetsam – The Cold {EU} (Nuclear Blast) — Trey Spencer
Ginuwine – Elgin (Notifi)
Glassjaw – Coloring Book [EP] (Self Released) — Ryan Flatley
P.J. Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant Records) — Joseph Viney
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky) — Tyler Fisher
Hurtsmile – Hurtsmile (Frontiers Records)
Kasey Anderson and The Honkies – Heart of a Dog (Red River Records)
Korpiklaani – Ukon Wacka (Nuclear Blast America)
La Sera – La Sera (HARDLY ART)
Shawn Lee – World of Funk (Ubiquity Records)
Teena Marie – Icon (Motown)
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Sub Pop) — Matt Wolfe
Mr. Big – What If (Caroline)
Nelson – Lightening Strikes Twice (Frontiers Records)
Neuraxis – Asylon (Prosthetic Records)
Frank Nitt – Jewels In My Backpack (Delicious Vinyl)
The Project Hate MCMXCIX – Bleeding the New Apocalypse (Season of Mist)
Radiohead – The King of Limbs [Digital Only] (Self Released) — Adam Downer
Rev Theory – Justice (Geffen Records) — Davey Boy
Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo (Indie Europe/Zoom)
Rkm & Ken-Y – Forever (Sony U.S. Latin)
Runner Runner – Runner Runner (Capitol Records)
Saigon – Greatest Story Never Told (Suburban Noize)
Shabazz the Disciple – Hood Scripturez (Chambermusik Records)
Sims (Doomtree) – Bad Time Zoo (Doomtree)
Sonic Youth – Simon Werner a Disparu (Sonic Youth/Syr) — Joseph Viney
Stryper – The Covering (Big 3 Records)
Tahiti 80 – The Past, The Present & The Possible (JVC Japan)
Ten – Stormwarning (Frontiers Records)
Twilight Singers – Dynamite Steps (Sub Pop)
Vreid – V (Indie Recordings)
The Warriors – See How You Are (Victory Records)
Yuck – Yuck (Fat Possum)

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Album Streams (please inform us of any broken links/removed streams):

Deicide – To Hell with God

P.J. Harvey – Let England Shake

Neuraxis – Asylon

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

Staff:

01) Bright Eyes
02) Onry Ozzborn
03) Spokes
04) Sufjan Stevens
05) Braids
06) Thrice
07) Sonic Youth
08) Brand New
09) Broken Social Scene
10) The Dodos

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) Kanye West
03) Thrice
04) Brand New
05) The Beatles
06) The National
07) Arcade Fire
08) Sufjan Stevens
09) Converge
10) The Tallest Man on Earth

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