Sputnikmusic is currently hosting an exclusive stream from the band Trioscapes. Trioscapes is the instrumental side-project of Between the Buried and Me bassist Dan Briggs and also features Walter Fancourt (tenor saxophone/flute) and Matt Lynch (drums). We will be streaming the eleven-minute title track right here for the next two weeks.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 1, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alien Vampires – Clubbers Die Younger [EP] (Alfa-Matrix Records)
Archie Powell & the Exports – Great Ideas in Action (Good Land Records)
Attaque – When Lights Falls (Honest Jon’s Records)
B.o.B – Strange Clouds (Good Land Records)
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben (A. RECORDS) — Joseph Viney
Ane Brun – It All Starts With One (Play It Again Sam)
Callaghan – Life In Full Colour (Green Town Music)
Cradle Of Filth – Midnight In The Labyrinth (Peaceville)
Dot Hacker – Inhibition (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
Electrocution – Inside the Unreal [20th anniversary ltd. edition] (Rosem)
Eternal Deformity – The Beauty Of Chaos (Code666 Records)
Evans the Death – Evans the Death (Slumberland Records)
Father John Misty – Fear Fun (Sub Pop Records)
Freakangel – Let It All End (Alfa-Matrix Records)
Ghost Mice – All We Got is Each Other (Plan-It-X Records) — Robin Smith
Gravenhurst – The Ghost In Daylight (Warp Records)
Hop Along – Get Disowned (Hot Green Records)
Hurt – The Crux (Red General Records)
In Mourning – The Weight of Oceans (Spinefarm)
Norah Jones – Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note Records)
Litrosis – I am Death (Pitch Black Records)
Lower Dens – Nootropics (Ribbon Music)
Marilyn Manson – Born Villain (Downtown)
Marriages – Kitsune (Sargent House)
Mekong Delta – Intersections (SPV/Steamhammer)
Pennywise – All or Nothing (Epitaph)
pg.Lost – Key (Black Star Foundation)
The Rabid Whole – Refuge (Boonsdale Records)
Carina Round – Tigermending (Dehisce Records)
Santigold – Master of My Make Believe (Atlantic)
Skip The Foreplay – Nightlife (Epitaph)
Sleep Maps – Fiction Makes The Future (Sleep Maps)
Soso – That Time I Dug So Deep I Ended Up In China (Self Released)
Spinto Band – Shy Pursuit (Redeye Label)
Stray – Letting Go (Alfa-Matrix Records)
Carrie Underwood – Blown Away (Sony Nashville)
Rufus Wainwright – Out of the Game (Decca Records)

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Album Streams:

Santigold – Master of My Make Believe

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

Staff:

01) Sigur Ros
02) The Shins
03) Andrew Bird
04) fun.
05) The Tallest Man on Earth
06) The National
07) The Flaming Lips
08) Bob Dylan
09) Jack White
10) Amorphis

Contributors:

01) La Dispute
02) Coheed and Cambria
03) St. Vincent
04) High on Fire
05) Brand New
06) Before the Dawn
07) These Branches
08) The Lopez
09) The Roots
10) Joyce Manor

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