Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 15, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Anberlin – Devotion (Big3 Records)
Anneke Van Giersbergen – Drive (Inside Out US)
The Avett Brothers – Magpie And The Dandelion (American Recordings)
Beats Antique – A Thousand Faces: Act 1 (10 Spot)
Black Milk – No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats Records)
Bloc Party – Tapes (Retrofit/!k7)
Boardwalk – Boardwalk (Stones Throw)
Cass McCombs – Big Wheels And Others (Domino)
Courtesy Drop – Songs To Drive To; Cray And Make Love To (Animal Style Records)
Crystal Antlers – Nothing Is Real (Innovative Leisure)
Cults – Static (Columbia) – Rudy K.
Death Angel – The Dream Calls For Blood (Nuclear Blast US)
Diane Birch – Speak A Little Louder (S-Curve Records)
The Dismemberment Plan – Uncanney Valley (Partisan Records) – Adam Downer
Doomriders – Grand Blood (Deathwish Inc.)
Ereb Altor – Fire Meets Ice (Cyclone Empire)
Fall Out Boy – Pax AM Days (Island Records)
Field Study – Feverland (Nine Mile Records)
Friendzone – DX (Self released/Bandcamp)
Gary Numan – Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) (10 Spot)
Gavin DeGraw – Make A Move (RCA)
The Head And The Heart – Let’s Be Still (Sub Pop)
Heavenly Beat – Prominence (Captured Tracks)
I Am King – Onehundred (Rise Records)
Icon For Hire – Icon For Hire (Tooth & Nail Records)
James Ferraro – NYC, HELL 3:00 AM (Hippos In Tanks)
Kill Division – Destructive Force (Metal Blade)
Kwes. – ilp (Warp Records)
Lucius – Wildewoman (Mom & Pop Music)
Luke Temple – Good Mood Fool (Secretly Canadian)
Mary J. Blige – A Mary Christmas (Verve)
Mike Donovan – WOT (Carrot Top Records)
Monster Magnet – Last Patrol (Napalm Records)
Natalie Grant – Hurricane (Curb Records)
Nobunny – Secret Songs: Reflections From The Ear Mirror (Goner Records)
Paul McCartney – New (Hear Music)
Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt (Monkeywrench/Republic Records)
Pelican – Forever Becoming (Southern Lord)
Red City Radio – Titles (Paper + Plastick)
Red Fang – Whales And Leeches (Relapse)
Rivers Of Nihil – The Conscious Seed Of Light (Metal Blade)
Roly Porter – Life Cycle Of A Massive Star (Subtext)
Scotty McCreery – See You Tonight (Interscope Records)
Shad – Flying Colours (Black Box Recordings Inc.)
Shine 2009 – Out Nation (Cascine)
Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy – A Tell All (Sweet Nector)
Silence The Messenger – Achilles (Standby Records)
Summer Camp – Summer Camp (PIAS America)
Tim Hecker – Virgins (Kranky)
TLC – 20 (Epic)
Toad The Wet Sprocket – New Constellation (Abe’s Records)
Trivium – Vengeance Falls (Roadrunner Records)
We Are Scientists – Business Casual (Dine Alone Music)
Whymond Miles – Cut Yourself Free (Sacred Bones)

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Album Streams:

The Avett Brothers – Magpie And The Dandelion

Boardwalk – Boardwalk

Cass McCombs – Big Wheel And Others

Cults – Static

Diane Birch – Speak A Little Louder

The Dismemberment Plan – Uncanney Valley

Field Study – Feverland

Friendzone – DX

Gary Numan – Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind)

The Head And The Heart – Let’s Be Still

Heavenly Beat – Prominence

James Ferraro – NYC HELL 3:00 AM

Kwes. – ilp

Lucius – Wildewoman

Luke Temple – Good Mood Fool

Monster Magnet – Last Patrol

Pelican – Forever Becoming

Red City Radio – Titles

Rivers Of Nihil – The Conscious Seed Of Light

Roly Porter – Life Cycle Of A Massive Star

Tim Hecker – Virgins

Trivium – Vengeance Falls

We Are Scientists – Business Casual

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

Staff :

1. Danny Brown
2. Lorde
3. Carcass
4. Touché Amoré
5. Miley Cyrus
6. Superchunk
7. Do Make Say Think
8. Sleigh Bells
9. Baroness
10. Blue Sky Black Death

Contributors:

1. Danny Brown
2. Drake
3. Darkside
4. Dance Gavin Dance
5. The National
6. The Weakerthans
7. Death Cab For Cutie
8. Lorde
9. Run The Jewels
10. A$AP Rocky

Community:

1. Danny Brown
2. The National
3. Radiohead
4. Lorde
5. Touché Amoré
6. Kanye West
7. Justin Timberlake
8. Brand New
9. Arctic Monkeys
10. Drake