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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 5, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alpha Tiger – Beneath The Surface (Century Media)
Bjork – Bastards (One Little Indian)
The Bronx – The Bronx (IV) (ATO Records/Red)
Chris Stamey – Lovesick Blues (Yep Roc Records)
Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Descension (Hundred, Handed Inc.)
Darkstar – News From Nowhere (Warp)
Dog Bite – Velvet Changes (Carpark Records)
Eels – Wonderful, Glorious (Vagrant Records)
Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse (Canvasback/Atlantic)
Funeral For A Friend – Conduit (The End Records)
Grouper – The Man Who Died In His Boat (1-2-3-4-GO!)
Harry Connick Jr. – Smokey Mary (Sony)
Hayden – Us Alone (Arts & Crafts)
Holly Williams – The Highway (Georgiana Records)
Jim James – Regions Of Light And Sound Of God (ATO Records/Red)
Joe Budden – No Love Lost (Entertainment One Music)
Josh Groban – All That Echoes (Reprise)
Matt Pond – The Lives Inside The Lines In Your Hand Out (BMG)
Misfits – DEA.D. ALIVE! (Misfits Records)
Necrowretch – Putrid Death Sorcery (Century Media)
Pacal Pinon – Twosomeness (Morr Music)
Plastician – Dubstep Allstars: Vol. 10 (Tempa)
Red – Release The Panic (Provident)
Richard Thompson – Electric (New West Records)
Ron Sexsmith – Forever Endeavour (MRI Associated)
Silverstein – This Is How The Wind Shifts (Hopeless Records)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – We The Common (Ribbon Records)
This Hisses – Anhedonia (Transdigital 66)
Tim McGraw – Two Lanes Of Freedom (Big Machine Records)
Trade – Sheworks 005 (Works The Long Nights)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II (Jagjaguwar)
The Upbeats – Diffused (Vision Recordings)
Wraetlic – Wraetlic (Convex Industries)

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Album Streams:

The Bronx – The Bronx (IV)

Darkstar – News From Nowhere

Eels – Wonderful, Glorious

Funeral For A Friend – Conduit

Hayden – Us Alone

Holly Williams – The Highway

Jim James – Regions Of Light And Sound Of God

Joe Budden – No Love Lost

Josh Groban – All The Echoes

Red – Release The Panic

Richard Thompson – Electric

Ron Sexsmith – Forever Endeavour

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – We The Common

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II

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

Staff :

1. Radiohead
2. Bad Religion
3. Neurosis
4. The Mountain Goats
5. The Mars Volta
6. Bjork
7. Tycho
8. Mew
9. Arcade Fire
10. Riverside

Contributors:

1. Burial
2. Deftones
3. Anathema
4. Grouper
5. Esoteric
6. Caves Of Steel
7. Hightide Hotel
8. Eluvium
9. Mechina
10. Portal