Sputnikmusic is proud to be hosting a free giveaway to coincide with the upcoming new Keane release, Strangeland. Head over here for details and don’t forget to check out the review as well.

We’re also still 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 one more week.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 8, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ab-Soul – Control System (TopDawg Ent.) — Sobhi Yousseff
Allegaeon – Formshifter (Metal Blade)
Angelus Apatrida – The Call (Century Media)
At The Skylines – Secrets To Life (Roadrunner Records)
Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Wuz Here (Green Streets Ent)
Dana Buoy – Summer Bodies (Lefse)
Mariah Carey – The Essential Mariah Carey (Sony Legacy)
Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity (Metal Blade) — Kyle Ward
Chasing Claymores – Hindsight’s 20/20 (Authentik Artists)
Daytrader – Twelve Years (Rise Records) — Adam Thomas
Heavy Blanket – Heavy Blanket (Outer Battery Records)
Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship (Secretly Canadian)
I Self Devine – The Sound of Low Class Amerika (Rhymesayers)
It Bites – Map of the Past (InsideOut Music)
John 5 – God Told Me To (Rocket Science)
Karmin – Hello [EP] (Epic)
Keane – Strangeland (Interscope Records) — SowingSeason
Kontrust – Second Hand Wonderland (Napalm Records)
Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk – Over Land and Sea (Catapult)
Lionheart – Undisputed (MediaSkare)
Lone – Galaxy Garden (R&S Records) — Deviant
Arjen Lucassen – Lost In The New Real (Inside Out Music)
Martha’s Trouble – A Little Heart Like You (Aisling)
Matt Skiba and The Sekrets – Babylon (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Mixtapes – Somewhere in Trinsic [EP] (Animal Style Records)
Moonspell – Alpha Noir (Napalm Records) — Trey Spencer
Obsidian Tongue – Volume I: Subradiant Architecture (Dissociation Records)
Oddland – The Treachery of Senses (Century Media)
OFF! – OFF! (Vice Records)
Otherwise – True Love Never Dies (Century Media)
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – T.A.L.O.S. (Metropolis Records)
PS I Love You – Death Dreams (Paper Bag Records)
The Samuel Jackson Five – The Samuel Jackson Five (Honest Abe Records) — Sobhi Youssef
Silversun Pickups – Neck Of The Woods (Dangerbird Records) — Adam Knott
Sleep – Dopesmoker (Southern Lord)
Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion (Roadrunner Records)
Tank – This Is How I Feel (Atlantic)
Trioscapes – Separate Realities (Century Media)
Turnpike Troubadours – Goodbye Normal Street (12TH STREET RECORDS)
Video Love – Mon Ange (Lentonia Records)
Sara Watkins – Sun Midnight Sun (Nonesuch)
Rita Wilson – AM/FM (Decca)
The Wood Brothers – Volume 1: Sky High (Southern Ground Artists)
Words Like Daggers – Literature (Indianola Records)

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Album Streams:

Mariah Carey – The Essential Mariah Carey

Chasing Claymores – Hindsight’s 20/20

Daytrader – Twelve Years

Karmin – Hello

Martha’s Trouble – A Little Heart Like You

Silversun Pickups – Neck Of The Woods

Turnpike Troubadours – Goodbye Normal Street

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

Staff:

01) The Flaming Lips
02) Bersarin Quartett
03) Deftones
04) Maps & Atlases
05) Rihanna
06) Japandroids
07) Jack White
08) Regina Spektor
09) Chromatics
10) Neil Young

General Users:

01) Death Grips
02) Radiohead
03) Thrice
04) Brand New
05) Sigur Rós
06) Converge
07) Kanye West
08) Jack White
09) Mastodon
10) Bon Iver

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