Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 13, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere (Profound Lore) – Kyle Ward
Bane – Don’t Wait Up (Equal Vision Records)
The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Nonesuch)
Blondie – Ghosts Of Download (Noble ID)
Blondie – Blondie: 40 (Noble ID)
Brantley Gilbert – Just As I Am (Valory)
Chromeo – White Women (Big Beat/WEA)
Coldplay – Ghost Stories (Parlophone/Atlantic)
Cursed Sails – Rotten Society (Rise Records)
Dolly Parton – Blue Smoke (Sony Masterworks)
Dylan Gardner – Adventures In Real Time (Bingo Masters)
Front Line Assembly – Echoes (Metropolis Records)
Gruff Rhys – American Interior (Caroline International) – Raul Stanciu
Guided By Voices – Cool Planet (Guided By Voices)
Hiss Tracts – Shortwave Nights (Constellation)
The Howlin’ Brothers – Trouble (Readymade Records)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Goin’ Home (Concord)
Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed (Nuclear Blast America)
Kishi Bashi – Lighght (Joyful Noise Records)
La Sera – Hour Of The Dawn (Hardly Art)
Levi Weaver – Your Ghosts Keep Finding Me (Rock Ridge Music)
Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband (Loma Vista/Republic)
Malka Spigel – Gliding (Swim)
Michael Jackson – Xscape (Epic)
Midnight Faces – The Fire Is Gone (Broken Factory)
Mirah – Changing Light (K)
Mushroomhead – The Righteous & The Butterfly (Megaforce)
Only Crime – Pursuance (Rise Records)
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Days Of Abandon (Yebo Music)
Prins Thomas – III (Full Pupp)
Rascal Flatts – Rewind (Big Machine Records)
Rig 1 – North Of Maple (Team Love Records)
Sean Nicholas Savage – Bermuda Waterfall (Arbutus)
Swans – To Be Kind (Young God)
Sylar – To Whom It May Concern (Razor & Tie)
Thunderegg – C’mon Thunder (Thunderegg)
Tobacco – Ultima II Massage (Ghostly International)
Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines (Mercury Classics)
The Upbeats – Rituals (Blackout Music)
Walter Martin – We’re All Young Together (Family Jukebox)
Weatherbox – Flies In All Directions (East West Records)
Young Widows – Easy Pain (Temporary Residence)

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Album Streams:

Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere

Bane – Don’t Wait Up

The Black Keys – Turn Blue

Chromeo – White Women

Dolly Parton – Blue Smoke

Gruff Rhys – American Interior

Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed

Kishi Bashi – Lighght

La Sera – Hour Of The Dawn

Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband

Mirah – Changing Light

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Days Of Abandon

Prins Thomas – III

Sean Nicholas Savage – Bermuda Waterfall

Swans – To Be Kind

Tobacco – Ultimo II Massage

Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines

Walter Martin – We’re All Young Together

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

Staff :

1. Closure In Moscow
2. Sharon Van Etten
3. Arcade Fire
4. Oneohtrix Point Never
5. Kendrick Lamar
6. Baths
7. BADBADNOTGOOD
8. Tune-Yards
9. Sigur Rós
10. Dead Congregation

Contributors:

1. Agalloch
2. Swans
3. Every Time I Die
4. The National
5. The Mars Volta
6. Alice In Chains
7. Trophy Scars
8. Kanye West
9. M.I.A.
10. Eminem

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