Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 07, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune (Astralwerks) — Deviant
A Place to Bury Strangers – Onwards to the Wall (Dead Oceans)
Dierks Bentley – Home (Capitol Nashville)
Tim Berne – Snakeoil (ECM Records)
Beth Jeans Houghton & Hooves Of Destiny – Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (Mute)
Big Sir – Before Gardens After Gardens (Rodriguez Lopez Productions)
Archer Black – Forgiveness Is A Weapon (Post Planetary)
Casting Call – Life Goes On (Casting Call)
Robert Deeble – Heart Like Feathers (Dead Letter Records)
Departures – Green Turns To Red, Then Turns To Gold (Fist in the Air Records)
Die Antwoord – Ten$Ion (Downtown)
Dr. Dog – Be The Void (Anti-) — SowingSeason
Eluveitie – Helvetios {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Feed Me – Escape From Electric Mountain (Mau5trap) — Deviant
The Fray – Scars & Stories (Epic) — SowingSeason
Hyper Crush – Night Wave (RPM)
Kiros – Lay Your Weapons Down (Century Media Records)
Ben Kweller – Go Fly a Kite (The Noise Company)
The Law – Trigger (Local Boy Records)
The Lemonheads – Hotel Sessions (CBRA)
Liam The Younger – After the Graveyard (Underwater Peoples Records)
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral (4AD Records)
Scott Matthew – Gallantry’s Favorite Son (Riot Bear Recording)
Paul McCartney – Kisses On The Bottom (Hear Music)
Nephelium – Coils of Entropy (Self Released)
Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl Records) — Rudy Klapper
One-2 – Destiny (Treacherous Records)
Pretty Good Dance Moves – LIMO (Mad Dragon Records)
Chuck Prophet – Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc Records)
Psycroptic – Inherited Repression (Nuclear Blast)
Shaggy – Summer in Kingston (Red General)
Silverstein – Short Songs (Hopeless Records)
Silver Swans – Forever (Twenty-Seven Records)
Therapy? – A Brief Crack Of Light (Blast Records)
Tord Gustavsen Trio – The Well (ECM Records)
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know (Fat Cat) — Adam Knott
Steve Tyrell – I’ll Take Romance (Concord Records)
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (Jagjaguwar) — SowingSeason
Van Halen – A Different Kind of Truth (Interscope Records) — DaveyBoy
Jaci Velasquez – Diamond (Inpop)
Young Guns – Bones (Live Forever) — DaveyBoy

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Album Streams:

Die Antwoord – Ten$Ion

Dr. Dog – Be The Void

The Fray – Scars & Stories

Hyper Crush – Night Wave

Kiros – Lay Your Weapons Down

Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral

Paul McCartney – Kisses On The Bottom

Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks

One-2 – Destiny

Psycroptic – Inherited Repression

Shaggy – Summer in Kingston

Silverstein – Short Songs

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

Staff:

01) ScHoolboy Q
02) M83
03) John K. Samson
04) Thrice
05) Converge
06) Nada Surf
07) Thursday
08) Lana Del Rey
09) The Tallest Man on Earth
10) Cloud Nothings

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) M83
03) Brand New
04) Bon Iver
05) The Weeknd
06) Thrice
07) The National
08) Converge
09) Deftones
10) La Dispute

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