Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 25, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Barzin – To Live Alone In That Long Summer (Monotreme Records)
Beck – Morning Phase (Capitol/Universal) – Rudy K.
Bleeding Rainbow – Interrupt (Kanine Records)
Brandt Bauer Frick – DJ-Kicks: Brandt Bauer Frick (!K7)
Dierks Bentley – Riser (Capitol Nashville/Universal)
Doomsquad – Kalaboogie (Hand Drawn Dracula)
Drekka – Ekki Gera Fikniefnum (Dais Records)
The Fray – Helios (Epic)
InDirections – Clockworks (InVogue Records)
Lo-Fang – Blue Film (4AD)
Major Lazer – Apocalypse Soon (Mad Decent)
Mike Gordon – Overstep (ATO Records)
Neneh Cherry – Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
New Bums – Voices In A Rented Room (Drag City)
The Notwist – Close To The Glass (Sub Pop)
Patten – ESTOILE NAIANT (Warp Records) – Hyperion
Priscilla Ahn – This Is Where We Are (SQE Music)
Runaway Dorothy – The Wait (Rock Ridge Music)
Scattered Bodies – Talking Songs (Dream Tower Records)
ScHoolboy Q – Oxymoron (Interscope Records) – Aziz
St. Vincent – St. Vincent (Loma Vista/Republic) – Greg Fisher
Twin Forks – Twin Forks (Dine Alone)
Untold – Black Light Spiral (Hemlock Recordings)
Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)
Yellow Ostrich – Cosmos (Barsuk)

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Album Streams:

Barzin – To Live Alone In That Long Summer

Beck – Morning Phase

Bleeding Rainbow – Interrupt

Dierks Bentley – Riser

Lo-Fang – Blue Film

Major Lazer – Apocalypse Soon

Neneh Cherry – Blank Project

The Notwist – Close To The Glass

Patten – ESTOILLE NAIANT (click on the snowflake, then “stream”)

St. Vincent – St. Vincent

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

Staff :

1. Los Campesinos!
2. Cynic
3. Dark Tranquility
4. The National
5. The Beatles
6. Isiah Rashad
7. Converge
8. St. Vincent
9. Miles Davis
10. Deltron 3030

Contributors:

1. St. Vincent
2. The National
3. Radiohead
4. Beck
5. Kanye West
6. Moby
7. Eminem
8. Muse
9. The Chariot
10. Purity Ring

Community:

1. St. Vincent
2. The National
3. Radiohead
4. Kanye West
5. Brand New
6. Sun Kil Moon
7. Kendrick Lamar
8. Boards Of Canada
9. Converge
10. Danny Brown