Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 14, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Barry Adamson – I Will Set You Free (Central Control)
Anvil – Pound for Pound [ReIssue] (The End Records)
Audrey Assad – Heart (Sparrow Records)
Audra Mae and The Almighty Sound – Audra Mae and The Almighty Sound (Side One Dummy)
Avatar – Black Waltz (Entertainment One)
Band Of Skulls – Sweet Sour (Vagrant Records)
The Beauty of Gemina – Iscariot Blues (Metropolis Records)
Beneath the Massacre – Incongruous (Prosthetic Records)
Sean Born – Behind the Scale (Mello Music Group)
Burial – Kindred (Hyperdub) — Deviant
Caliban – I Am Nemesis {EU} (Century Media)
Dawn Of Ashes – Farewell To The Flesh [EP] (Metal Blade Records)
Lee DeWyze – What Once Was (Wuli)
Earth – Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II (Southern Lord)
Eisbrecher – Die Holle Muss Warten (Metropolis Records)
Eisley – Deep Space [EP] (Equal Vision Records)
Exdetectives – Take My Forever (Post Planetary)
The Explorers Club – Grand Hotel (Rock Ridge Music) — SowingSeason
Field Music – Plumb (Memphis Industries)
The Frozen Autumn – Chirality (Metropolis Records)
Goatwhore – Blood for the Master (Metal Blade)
Heartless Bastards – Arrow (Partisan Records)
Hillsong – Live in Miami (Hillsong)
Belle Histoire – I Can Tell (InVogue Records)
Hopes Die Last – Trust No One (Standby Records/Red)
Beth Jeans Houghton – Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (EMI)
Howlin Rain – The Russian Wilds (Columbia)
Islands – A Sleep & A Forgetting (ANTI-) — Rudy Klapper
Kill Paradise – The Glitch (Breaksilence Records)
Amos Lee – As the Crow Flies (Blue Note Records)
Les Discrets – Ariettes Oubliees {EU} (Prophecy Records)
Lillian Axe – XI: The Days Before Tomorrow (CME Records)
Macabra – Blood-Nurtured Nature (Metalhit.com)
Keith Moody – Dreaming Out Loud (KMMR)
Breag Naofa – Breag Naofa (Panic Records)
Nine Lashes – World We View (Tooth & Nail Records)
Omega Centauri – Universum Infinitum (Duplicate Records)
Orange Goblin – Eulogy for the Damned (Candlelight)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Form & Control (Virtual Label)
Punch Brothers – Who’s Feeling Young Now? (Nonesuch)
Mitch Ryder – The Promise (Michigan Broadcasting Company)
The Saddest Landscape – After the Lights (Topshelf Records)
Shearwater – Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
Spock’s Beard – The X Tour (Megaforce)
John Talabot – Fin (Permanent Vacation) — Deviant
Tennis – Young And Old (Fat Possum Records)
Rosie Thomas – With Love (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Tonight Alive – What Are You So Scared Of? (Fearless Records) — Davey Boy
Uriah Heep – Logical Revelations (1-2-3-4 GO)
Useless ID – Symptoms (Fat Wreck Chords)
Vintage Blue – Strike The Mics (Vintage Blue)
Young Magic – Melt (Carpark Records)

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Album Streams:

Audra Mae and The Almighty Sound – Audra Mae and The Almighty Sound

Avatar – Black Waltz

Burial – Kindred

Earth – Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II

Amos Lee – As the Crow Flies

Keith Moody – Dreaming Out Loud

Orange Goblin – Eulogy for the Damned

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

Staff:

01) Lana Del Rey
02) Brand New
03) The National
04) ScHoolboy Q
05) Frank Ocean
06) Pavement
07) Deftones
08) Yeah Yeah Yeahs
09) A Perfect Circle
10) Radiohead

Contributors:

01) Grimes
02) The Mars Volta
03) Lana Del Rey
04) Burial
05) Rosetta
06) Drake & Rick Ross
07) Good Old War
08) Roisin Murphy
09) Ceremony
10) Norma Jean

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