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

2 Chainz – Based On A T.R.U. Story (Island/Def Jam)
Ash Borer – Cold Of Ages (Profound Lore) – Kyle Ward
American Me – III (Rise Records)
Ben Taylor – Listening (Sun Pedal Recordings)
Black Light Burns – The Moment You Realize You’re Going To Fall (Red General Catalog)
Bloc Party – Four (Frenchkiss)
Blue Daisy & Unknown Shapes – Bedtime Stories (Blackacre Records)
Calyx & Teebee – Elevate This Sound/Hurting (Ram Records)
The Classic Crime – Phoenix (Goomba Music) – Davey Boy
Coki – Don’t Get It Twisted Vol. 2 (DMZ)
Dead Can Dance – Anastasis (Pias America)
The-Dream – Love IV MMXII (Def Jam)
Ephel Duath – On Death and Cosmos (AIS)
The Faceless – Autotheism (Sumerian Records)
Four Tet – Pink (Text Records)
From Atlantis – Pedestals (Invogue Records)
The Gashers – Law Is Not Order (Squidhat Records)
Hand Of Mercy – Last Lights (UNFD)
The Holy Mess – Cande Ru Las Degas (Phantom Domestic)
Insane Clown Posse – The Mighty Death Pop! (Psychopathic)
In This Moment – Blood (Red General Catalog)
Jessie Ware – Devotion (Island UK)
Letter To The Exiles – Make Amends (Facedown Records)
Lorelei – Enterprising Sidewalks (Slumberland Records)
Masked Intruder – Masked Intruder (Red Scare)
MNDR – Feed Me Diamonds (Ultra Records)
North Atlantic Oscillation – Fog Lecetric (Kscope)
Nude Beach – II (Fat Possum)
Pswingset – All Our False Starts (Topshelf Records)
Shed – The Killer (50 Weapons) – Deviant
Smile Smile – Marry A Stranger (Kirtland Records)
Solace – Call And Response (Solace)
Spook Houses – Trying (Evil Weevil Records)
Steve Vai – The Story Of Light (Favored Nations/RSM)
Such Gold – Misadventures (Razor & Tie)
The Teeth – Homewrecker (Rock Paper Records)
Twitch The Ripper – Colorblind (Metropolis Records)
White Violet – Hiding, Mingling (Red General Catalog)
Why? – Sod In The Seed (Anticon)
Yeasayer – Fragrant World (Secretly Canadian)
Yellowcard – Southern Air (Hopeless Records) – SowingSeason

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Album Streams:

Ben Taylor – Listening

Black Light Burns – The Moment You Realize You’re Going To Fall

Bloc Party – Four

The Holy Mess – Cande Ru Las Degas

Spook Houses – Trying

Steve Vai – The Story Of Light

Twitch The Ripper – Colorblind

White Violet – Hiding, Mingling

Yellowcard – Southern Air

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

Staff :

01) Gaza
02) Explosions In the Sky
03) Mount Eerie
04) Bon Iver
05) Thrice
06) Regina Spektor
07) Passion Pit
08) Death Cab For Cutie
09) Radiohead
10) Modest Mouse

Contributors:

01) Meshuggah
02) Dirty Projectors
03) Every Time I Die
04) Streetlight Manifesto
05) Unsane
06) Mr. Fingers
07) Childish Gambino
08) After Hours
09) Scum Of The Earth
10) Actress