Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 6, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Atmosphere – Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
BADBADNOTGOOD – III (Innovative Leisure)
Barrows – Red Giant (Barrows)
Baths – Ocean Death (Anticon)
Ben & Ellen Harper – Childhood Home (Prestige Folklore)
Black Stone Cherry – Magic Mountain (Roadrunner)
Crash – Hardly Criminal (Community Music)
Current Swell – Ulysses (Nettwerk Records)
Elephant – Sky Swimming (Memphis Industries)
Eno & Hyde – Someday World (Warp Records)
Epica – The Quantum Enigma (Nuclear Blast America)
Fujiya & Miyagi – Artificial Sweeteners (Yep Roc Records)
The Horrors – Luminous (XL Recordings)
Hunter Hayes – Storyline (Atlantic)
Kina Grannis – Elements (One Haven Music)
King Dude – Fear (Not Just Religious Music)
Leisure Cruise – Leisure Cruise (Last Gang Records)
Liam Finn – The Nihilist (Yep Roc Records)
Lily Allen – Sheezus (Warner Bros.)
Lykke Li – I Never Learn (Atlantic)
Matrimony – Montibello Memories (Sony)
Money – The Shadow Of Heaven (Bella Union)
Morning Parade – Pure Adulterated Joy (So Recordings)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Spooky Tricks (SleazeBox) – Raul Stanciu
Natalie Merchant – Natalie Merchant (Nonesuch)
Naughty Boy – Hotel Cabana (Capitol Records)
Nikki Lane – All Or Nothin’ (New West Records)
Papercuts – Life Among The Savages (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Paws – Youth Culture Forever (FatCat Records)
Rachel Taylor Brown – Family (Rachel Taylor Brown/Bandcamp)
Rodrigo Amarante – Cavalo (Caroline)
Santana – Corazon (RCA)
Sarah McLachlan – Shine On (Verve)
Thomas Dybdahl – What’s Left Is Forever (Strange Cargo)
Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack (4AD)
Willie Watson – Folk Singer Vol. 1 (Acony Records)
Young Magic – Breathing Statues (Carpark Records)

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Album Streams:

BADBADNOTGOOD – III

Baths – Ocean Death

Ben & Ellen Harper – Childhood Home

Eno & Hyde – Someday World

Gruff Rhys – American Exterior

The Horrors – Luminous

Liam Finn – The Nihilist

Lily Allen – Sheezus

Lykke Li – I Never Learn

Nikki Lane – All Or Nothin’

Papercuts – Life Among The Savages

Rachel Taylor Brown – Falimy

Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack

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

Staff :

1. The Menzingers
2. Real Estate
3. Ampere
4. Lord Mantis
5. DJ Rashad
6. Kanye West
7. The National
8. Prince
9. Trophy Scars
10. Regina Spektor

Contributors:

1. Trophy Scars
2. The National
3. Insomnium
4. Porcupine Tree
5. Danny Brown
6. Mastodon
7. Iron Maiden
8. Radiohead
9. Kanye West
10. Fennesz

Community:

1. The National
2. Trophy Scars
3. Converge
4. Radiohead
5. Brand New
6. Kanye West
7. Thrice
8. Deftones
9. The Antlers
10. Pink Floyd