Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 24, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Acid Reign – Diversity (Uncommon Records)
Aerosmith – Tough Love: Best Of The Ballads (Geffen Records)
Against Me – Total Clarity (Fat Wreck Chords)
Amorphis – The Beginning Of Times {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Army of the Universe – Mother Ignorance (Metropolis Records)
Art Brut – Brilliant! Tragic! (Cooking Vinyl) — Joseph Viney
David Bazan – Strange Negotiations (Barsuk)
Black Stone Cherry – Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea (Roadrunner Records)
Black Tusk – Passage Through Purgatory [Remastered] (Relapse)
Boris – Attention Please (Sargent House)
Boris – Heavy Rocks (Sargent House)
Carter’s Chord – Wild Together (Universal Music)
Cave In – White Silence (Hydra Head Records)
Clan Of Xymox – Darkest Hour (Metropolis Records)
Coerce – Ethereal Surrogate Saviour {AU} (Capitalgames Records)
Destroyer 666 – To the Devil His Due (Hells Headbangers)
The Devil Whale – Teeth (The Devil Whale)
Fireworks – Gospel (Triple Crown Records)
Foster the People – Torches (Columbia) — Rudy Klapper
Friendly Fires – Pala (XL Recordings)
Haemorrhage – Hospital Carnage (Relapse)
Inevitable End – Oculus (Relapse)
In Solitude – World the Flesh the Devil (Metal Blade)
Johanna & The Dusty Floor – Northern Lights (Red Valise Records)
King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine (Domino Records) — Observer
Lady Gaga – Born This Way (Interscope Records) — Nick Butler
Manifestations of Baba Bazooba – Vienna Woods (Metropolis Records)
Marienbad – Werk 1: Nachtfall (Massacre)
Mesh – An Alternative Solution (Metropolis Records)
Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts (Matador Records) — Joseph Viney
Neal Morse – Testimony 2 (Metal Blade)
New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys – NKOTBSB (Sony Legacy)
Brad Paisley – This Is Country Music (Sony Nashville)
The Prodigy – Live Worlds on Fire (The End Records)
Saxon – Call to Arms (Militia Guard Music)
Second Sky – The Art of Influence (Rhythm and Culture Music)
She Wants Revenge – Valleyheart (Five Seven Music)
Shining – VII: Fodd Forlorare (Spinefarm)
SMOD – SMOD (Nacional Records)
Supreme Pain – Divine Incantation (Massacre)
Amon Tobin – Isam (Ninja Tune)

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

Art Brut – Brilliant! Tragic!

Boris – Attention Please

Boris – Heavy Rocks

Clan Of Xymox – Darkest Hour

Coerce – Ethereal Surrogate Saviour

Fireworks – Gospel

New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys – NKOTBSB

Brad Paisley – This Is Country Music

Second Sky – The Art of Influence

She Wants Revenge – Valleyheart

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

Staff:

01) Tyler, The Creator
02) Manchester Orchestra
03) Wild Beasts
04) Yuck
05) Elliot Smith
06) Devin Townsend Project
07) Stars
08) The National
09) Fleet Foxes
10) The Magnetic Fields

General Users:

01) Tyler, the Creator
02) Radiohead
03) Manchester Orchestra
04) Thrice
05) Fleet Foxes
06) Brand New
07) Kanye West
08) The National
09) The Beatles
10) The Antlers

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