Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 30th, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Amplifier – Mystoria (Superball Music)
Black Crown Initiate – The Wreckage Of Stars (Entertainment One Music)
Blake Shelton – Bringing Back The Sunshine (Warner Bros.)
Boogarins – As Plantas Que Curam (Fat Possum)
Call Super – Suzi Ecto (Houndstooth)
Christopher Owens – A New Testament (Turnstyle)
Curtin – One For The Doghearted (Curtin)
Davey Suicide – Worldwide Suicide (Standby Records)
Death Penalty – Death Penalty (Rise Above Ltd.)
Decapitated – Blood Mantra (Nuclear Blast)
Electric Wizard – Time To Die  (Spinefarm)
Electric Youth – Innerworld (Secretly Canadian)
Evergrey – Hymns For The Broken (AFM Records)
Finch – Back To Oblivion (Razor & Tie)
Gerard Way – Hesitant Alien (Reprise)
Gui Boratto – Abaporu (Kompakt)
The History Of Apple Pie – Feel Something (Marshall Teller)
Lady Antebellum – 747 (Capitol Nashville/Universal)
Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (Highway 20 Records)
Luke Winslow-King – Everlasting Arms (Bloodshot Records)
Meshuggah – I (Special Edition) (Nuclear Blast) – Trey Spencer
Montibus Communitas – The Pilgrim To The Absolute (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records)
Nicholas Krgovich – On Sunset (Nettwerk Records)
Nonpoint – The Return (Red International)
Phobocosm – Deprived (Dark Descent)
Prince – Art Official Age (Warner Bros.)
Prince & 3rdEyeGirl – Plectrumelectrum (Warner Bros.)
Radium Valley – Tales From The Apocalypse (Pavement Music)
Raul Midón – Don’t Hesitate (Artistry Music)
Robin Gibb – 50 St. Catherine’s Drive (Rhino)
Rob Lynch – All These Nights In Bars Will Somehow Save My Soul (Xtra Mile Recordings)
The Rural Alberta Advantage – Mended With Gold (Saddle Creek)
Sick Of It All – The Last Act Of Defiance (Century Media) – Trey Spencer
Steve Aoki – Neon Future I (Ultra Records)
Tigers On Trains – Antarctica In Color (Tigers On Trains)
Tove Lo – Queen Of The Clouds (Island)
Trigger Hippy – Trigger Hippy (Rounder)
White Empress – Rise Of The Empress (Peaceville/Snapper)
Witch Mountain – Mobile Of Angels (Profound Lore)
Woodtemple – Forgotten Pride (Sacrilege Records)
Yelle – Complètement Fou (Kemosabe Records)
yMusic – Balance Problems (New Amsterdam)
Zodiac – Sonic Child (Prosthetic)

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Album Streams:

Christopher Owens – A New Testament

Electric Youth – Innerworld

Gerard Way – Hesitant Alien

The History Of Apple Pie – Feel Something

Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone

The Rural Alberta Advantage – Mended With Gold

Witch Mountain – Mobile Of Angels

yMusic – Balance Problems

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

Staff :

1. Spoon
2. Aphex Twin
3. St. Vincent
4. The War On Drugs
5. Alvvays
6. Flying Lotus
7. Hammock
8. The Walkmen
9. Arctic Monkeys
10. Interpol

Contributors:

1. Aphex Twin
2. The Menzingers
3. Danny Brown
4. Weezer
5. Against Me!
6. Banks
7. Flying Lotus
8. Trophy Scars
9. Converge
10. A$AP Rocky

Community:

1. Aphex Twin
2. Brand New
3. Kanye West
4. Radiohead
5. The National
6. Deftones
7. The Contortionist
8. Interpol
9. Opeth
10. Converge