Art By Numbers’ debut album, Reticence: The Musical, will be streaming on the site until the end of Tuesday, so if you haven’t checked it out yet, you better do it soon. They have been compared to everyone from The Human Abstract and Protest the Hero to Coheed & Cambria and The Mars Volta. Give it a listen here.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 29, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

2:54 – 2:54 (Fat Possum Records)
Art By Numbers – Reticence: The Musical (Art By Numbers)
Wade Bowen – The Given (Sony Nashville)
Crystal Bowersox – Once Upon A Time (Crystal Bowersox)
Brotherhood of the Lake – Desperation Is The English Way Vol.1 (Thirty Days Of Night Records)
Delain – We Are The Others (Roadrunner/Warner)
Dogjaw – Pilot (Solidarity Recordings)
The Dig – Midnight Flowers (Buffalo Jump Records)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Here (Community Music)
Melody Gardot – The Absence (Verve)
Gotthard – Firebirth (Nuclear Blast Records)
Kreator – Phantom Antichrist (Nuclear Blast Records)
Ladyhawke – Anxiety (Universal UK) — Davey Boy
Malice – New Breed Of Godz (Steamhammer/SPV)
Millencolin – Melancholy Connection [CD/DVD] (Burning Heart)
Marissa Nadler – The Sister (Box of Cedar)
Travis Porter – From Day 1 (RCA)
Public Image Ltd – This Is PiL (PiL Official)
Gemma Ray – Island Fire (Bronzerat Records)
Saint Etienne – Words and Music by Saint Etienne (Universal UK)
Sarah Jezebel Deva – Malediction EP [Digital Only Release] (Listenable Records)
Scissor Sisters – Magic Hour (Casablanca)
Sigur Ros – Valtari (XL Recordings) — Adam Knott
Simian Mobile Disco – Unpatterns (Wichita Recordings Ltd) — Deviant
The Static Sea – Third Parties (Overpop Music)
Sun Kil Moon – Among the Leaves (Caldo Verde) — Cam
Tassels – Pressure Mounts (Pour Le Corps)
The Toxic Avenger – Angst (Little Owl Recordings)
Vetter – Vetterkult (Demonhood Productions)
The Walkmen – Heaven (Fat Possum) — Rudy Klapper

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Album Streams:

Travis Porter – From Day 1

Saint Etienne – Words and Music by Saint Etienne

Sigur Ros – Valtari

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

Staff :

01) Beach House
02) Death Cab For Cutie
03) Japandroids
04) Animal Collective
05) Killer Mike
06) Nada Surf
07) Beastie Boys
08) Swarms
09) mewithoutYou
10) Andrew Bird

Contributors:

01) Animal Collective
02) Dum Dum Girls
03) Radiohead
04) Korn
05) mewithoutYou
06) Opeth
07) The Killers
08) Adele
09) In Every Breath
10) Das Racist

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