Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 24, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ancients – Star Showers on the Euphrates (PID)
The Antlers – Undersea (ANTI Records) – SowingSeason
Blood Red Shoes – In Time To Voices (Cooperative Music)
Blu & Exile – Maybe One Day [EP] (Dirty Science/Fat Beats)
Constants – Pasiflora (The  Mylene Sheath)
Cooly G – Playin Time (Hyperdub)
Damu The Fudgemunk – Redef Remixes (Redefinition Records)
Dark Time Sunshine – ANX (Fake Four Inc.) – Sobhi Youssef
The Dirty Panties – I Am A Robot (SquidHat Records)
Distance – A Result Of Sound/Deserted (Chestplate)
DjRum – Watermark/The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn (2nd Drop Records)
Eternal Summers – Correct Behavior (Kanine Records)
Family Band – Grace & Lies (No Quarter)
Fang Island – Major (Sargent House)
Foals – Tapes (!K7)
Forever Came Calling – Contender (Pure Noise Ent.)
The Full Steam – Yours Truly (The Full Steam)
The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten (Mercury) – Adam Knott
GZA – Liquid Swords: The Chess Box Set (Get On Down)
Jack Sparrow – Afraid Of Me (Deep Medi)
Jennifer Lopez – Dance Again: The Hits (Epic) – Irving Tan Zhi Mian
Laetitia Sadier – Silencio (Drag City)
Lawrence Arabia – The Sparrow (Bella Union)
Love And Theft – Love And Theft (Sony Nashville/RCA)
Micachu & the Shapes – Never (Rough Trade US)
Mike Patton & Luciano Berio – Laborintus II (Ipecac Recordings) – Eli Kleman
Oh No – Dr. No’s Kali Tornado Funk (Five Day Weekend)
OM – Advaitic Songs (Drag City)
Passion Pit – Gossamer (Columbia) – Rudy Klapper
Pinsky – Weekends (Sinking Ship Records)
Purity Ring – Shrines (4AD Records)
Saint Saviour – Union (Redeye)
Silkie & Quest – Dubstep Allstars Vol. 9 (Tempa)
Slug Guts – Playin’ In Time With The Deadbeat (Sacred Bones)
Slipknot – Antennas To Hell (Roadrunner Records)
Spectrasoul  – Delay No More (Shogun Audio)
Testament – The Dark Roots of Earth {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Three Mile Pilot – Maps [EP] (Temporary Residence)
Todd Barry – Super Crazy (Comedy Central Rec.)
TNGHT – TNGHT (Hudson Mohawke x Lunice) [EP] (Warp Records) – Deviant
Young Moon – Navigated Like The Swan (Western Vinyl)

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Album Streams:

Blood Red Shoes – In Time To Voices

Dark Time Sunshine – ANX

Fang Island – Major

Lawrence Arabia – The Sparrow

Passion Pit – Gossamer

Saint Saviour – Union

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

Staff :

01) Dirty Projectors
02) Passion Pit
03) The Gaslight Anthem
04) The Tallest Man On Earth
05) Frank Ocean
06) Andrew Bird
07) Eluvium
08) Thursday
09) Japandroids
10) Ghost Mice

Contributors:

01) Meshuggah
02) Fall Out Boy
03) Flying Lotus
04) Frank Ocean
05) Fleet Foxes
06) Sean McCann
07) Ne Obliviscaris
08) Fear Factory
09) Soulfallen
10) Love American