Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 21, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes (4AD Records)
Bill Fay – Life Is People (Dead Oceans)
The Darkness – Hot Cakes (Wind-Up)
Dispatch – Circles Around The Sun (Universal Republic)
Ensiferum – Unsung Heroes (Spinefarm)
JJ DOOM – Key To The Kuffs (Lex Records)
JT Hodges – JT Hodges (Show Dog Universal)
I Am Carpenter – My God Clara (Bessie Pro Records)
Katatonia – Dead End Kings (Peaceville)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Last Of A Dyin’ Breed (Roadrunner/Loud & Proud)
Nathan Fake – Stream Days (Border Community)
Our Last Night – Age Of Ignorance (Epitaph)
Owl City – The Midsummer Station (Universal Republic)
Project 86 – Wait For The Siren (Project 86)
Ry Cooder – Election Special (Nonesuch)
Six Organs Of Admittance – Ascent (Drag City)
The Smith Street Band – Sunshine & Technology (Poison City Records)
Swans – The Seer (Young God Records)
Teengirl Fantasy – Tracer (R & S Records)
Tenth Avenue North – The Struggle (Reunion)
Trey Songz – Chapter V (Atlantic)

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Album Streams:

The Darkness – Hot Cakes

JJ DOOM – Key To The Kuffs

Lynyrd Skynyrd -Last Of A Dyin’ Breed

Project 86 – Wait For The Siren

Swans  – The Seer

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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