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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 25, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Acylum – Karzinom (Alfa Matrix)
A Loss for Words – No Sanctuary (Rise Records)
Banner Pilot – Hearts Beats Pacific (Fat Wreck Chords)
The Beets – Let The Poison Out (HARDLY ART)
Black Rock & Ron – Stop the World – Stop the World (Get On Down)
Black Sun Aeon – Blacklight Deliverance (Stay Heavy Records)
Black Tusk – Set the Dial (Relapse)
Boyz II Men – Twenty {UK} (Universal UK)
Michael Buble – Christmas (Reprise)
Casey Veggies – Sleeping In Class (Delicious Vinyl)
Kelly Clarkson – Stronger (RCA) — Steve M.
Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto (Capitol Records)
DarkDriveClinic – Noise In My Head (Metropolis Records)
De/Vision – Popgefahr: The Mix (Metropolis Records)
Death – Individual Thought Patterns [Remastered] (Relapse)
Deer Tick – Divine Providence (Partisan Records)
Dirty Projectors and Bjork – Mount Wittenberg Orca (Domino)
Dub Trio – Dub Trio IV (Roir Records)
Giant Squid – Cenotes (Translation Loss)
Vince Gill – Guitar Slinger (MCA Nashville)
Isole – Born From Shadows (Napalm Records)
Jedi Mind Tricks – Violence Begets Violence (Enemy Soil)
Junius – Reports From The Threshold Of Death (Prosthetic Records)
Justice – Audio, Video, Disco (Elektra) — Rudy Klapper
Toby Keith – Clancy’s Tavern (Show Dog Nashville)
Lights Resolve – Feel You’re Different (Rock Ridge Music)
Lou Reed and Metallica – Lulu {EU} (Warner Bros.) — Joseph Viney
Russian Circles – Empros (Sargent House)
She & Him – A Very She and Him Christmas (Merge Records)
Skinny Puppy – hanDover (Synthetic Symphony)
Tony Sly – Sad Bear (Fat Wreck Chords)
Straftanz – Mainstream Sellout Overground (Metropolis Records)
Structures – Divided By (Sumerian Records)
Surfer Blood – Tarot Classics (Kanine)
VNV Nation – Automatic (Anachron America)
Tom Waits – Bad As Me (Anti-)

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

A Loss for Words – No Sanctuary

Banner Pilot – Hearts Beats Pacific

Black Sun Aeon – Blacklight Deliverance

Boyz II Men – Twenty

Kelly Clarkson – Stronger

Skinny Puppy – hanDover

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

Staff:

01) James Blake
02) Bon Iver
03) Bjork
04) M83
05) Elliot Smith
06) Radiohead
07) Yo La Tengo
08) Burial
09) blink-182
10) Blue Sky Black Death

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) Brand New
03) Mastodon
04) Thrice
05) La Dispute
06) Bon Iver
07) Opeth
08) Converge
09) The Beatles
10) Bjork

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