Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 29, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Andre Obin – Ways Of Escape (Sky Council)
Ben Watt – Hendra (Unmade Road)
Brody Dalle – Diploid Love (Caroline)
Broken Twin – May (Anti Records)
Chad VanGaalen – Shrink Dust (Sub Pop)
Chris Robinson – Phosphorescent Harvest (Silver Arrow Records)
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
Devil You Know – The Beauty Of Destruction (Nuclear Blast America)
Edguy – Space Police: Defenders Of The Crown (Nuclear Blast America)
Floor – Oblation (Season Of Mist)
Fennesz – Becs (Editions Mego) – Raul Stanciu
Helstar – This Wicked Nest (AFM Records)
Howlin Rain – Live Rain (Agitated Records)
Lindsey Stirling – Shatter Me (Lindseystomp Music)
Maria Minerva – Histrionic (Not Not Fun)
Nels Cline – Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
Old 97’s – Most Messed Up (ATO Records)
Olga Bell – Krai (New Amsterdam Records)
Ought – More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
Pattern Is Movement – Pattern Is Movement (Hometapes)
Pink Mountaintops – Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
Pixies – Indie Cindy (Pias America)
Ramona Lisa – Arcadia (Red Distribution)
The Revere – Behold, The Sea Itself! (Rock Ridge Music)
Rodrigo y Gabriela – 9 Dead Alive (ATO Records)
The String Cheese Incident – Song In My Head (Loud & Proud Records)
Whitechapel – Our Endless War (Metal Blade)
Wye Oak – Shriek (Merge Records)

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Album Streams:

Ben Watt – Hendra

Brody Dalle – Diploid Love

Chad VanGaalen – Shrink Dust

Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots

Floor – Oblation

Howlin’ Rain – Live Rain

Nels Cline – Macroscope

Old 97’s – Most Messed Up

Olga Bell – Krai

Ought – More Than Any Other Day

Pixies – Indy Cindy

Ramona Lisa – Arcadia

Rodrigo y Gabriela – 9 Dead Alive

Wye Oak – Shriek

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

Staff :

1. Trophy Scars
2. Future Islands
3. The Menzingers
4. Ma DeMarco
5. Elliott Smith
6. Nas
7. Real Estate
8. The Strokes
9. Bon Iver
10. Arcade Fire

Contributors:

1. Trophy Scars
2. The Antlers
3. Drake
4. Weezer
5. Cloud Nothings
6. OutKast
7. Autechre
8. The Strokes
9. Agalloch
10. Chance The Rapper

Community:

1. Trophy Scars
2. The National
3. Radiohead
4. Converge
5. Brand New
6. Kanye West
7. The Menzingers
8. Deftones
9. The Antlers
10. Queens Of The Stone Age