As the release calender winds down for the festive season, and as we gear up for the big year-end features, this will be the last new releases post for the year.

As such, this post will cover all scheduled releases for the whole of December and January. Please note that all release dates provided are current at the time of posting, though are subject to change. All information is based upon their physical North American release date (where possible). This post will continue to be updated over the coming weeks as any new releases are announced or are postponed ( *cough*The Carter V). Both the album streams section and the Last FM charts will be updated accordingly as well.

If you happen upon a new release being announced that you don’t see here, please feel free to post in the comments section and it will be added. The same goes for any streams that become available after posting.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Staff end of year feature as well as the best of 2014 feature as decided by the entire userbase; head here to find out how you can cast your votes. Apart from that, enjoy the upcoming holidays and we will catch you all again in February 2015!

And as always, please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

2 December
AC/DC – Rock Or Bust (Columbia)
Little Envy – Little Envy (South By Sea)
Mary J. Blige – The London Sessions (Capitol)
Maverick – Quid Pro Quo (Massacre Records)
Owen – Other People’s Songs (Polyvinyl Records)
Parquet Courts – Content Nausea (What’s Your Rupture)
Saille – Eldritch (CODE666)
She & Him – Classics (Columbia)
Walk The Moon – Talking Is Hard (RCA)
White Arms Of Athena – White Arms Of Athena (Prosthetic)
Wu-Tang Clan – A Better Tomorrow (Warner Bros.)
Yung Lean – Unknown Memory (Sky Team)

9 December
Angels & Airwaves – The Dream Walker (To The Stars Records)
Coronatus – Cantus Lucidus (Massacre Records)
Cracker – Berkeley To Bakersfield (429 Records)
Dir En Grey – Arche (Sony Japan)
Emigrate – Silent So Long (Spinefarm)
Ex Cops – Daggers (Downtown)
Ghostface Killah – 36 Seasons (Tommy Boy)
Isole – The Calm Hunter (Cyclone Empire)
J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive (Roc Nation/Columbia Records)
Johnny Gill – Game Changer (10 Spot)
K. Michelle – Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart (Atlantic Urban)
Lotus Thief – Rervm (Svart Records)
Me And The Trinity – Crux (Hotfoot Records)
Nightglow – Orpheus (Bakerteam Records)
PRhyme – PRhyme (InGrooves)
Resumed – Alienations (Bakerteam Records)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Monuments To An Elegy (BMG Rights Management)
Starbynary – Dark Passenger (Bakerteam Records)
Stormwitch – Season Of The Witch (Nuclear Blast)
Taake – Stridens Hus (Karisma Records)

12 December
Astrakhan – A Tapestry Of Scabs And Skin (War On Music Records)

13 December
VYRE – The Initial Frontier – Part II (Supreme Chaos Records)

15 December
Brian Chippendale & Greg Saunier – Brian Chippendale & Greg Saunier (Famous Class)
D’Angelo – Black Messiah (RCA)
Morbosidad – Tortura (Nuclear War Now!)
Nicky Minaj – The Pinkprint (Motown/Universal)
Take That – III (Hip-O Records)
Zero Down – No Limit To The Evil (Minotauro Records)

16 December
Charli XCX – Sucker (Atlantic)
Chief Keef – Nobody (101 Distribution)
The City On Film – La Vella (Topshelf Records)
Geotic – Sunset Mountan (Eon Isle) (Geotic/Bandcamp)
Mike Will Made-It – Ransom Made-It Mafia
WitchBreed – Queen Of Storms (Whispering Voice Records)

21 December
In The Company Of Serpents – Merging In Light (Independent)

25 December
The Project Hate MCMXCIX – There Is No Earth I Will Leave Unscorched (Independent)

30 December
Sans Soleil – A Holy Land Beneath A Godless Sky (Tofu Carnage Records)

6 January
Catfish & The Bottlemen – The Balcony (Communion Records)
tētēma – Geocidal (Ipecac Recordings)

13 January
Dan Mangan + Blacksmith – Club Meds (Arts & Crafts)
David Bronson – Questions (Big Arc Records)
Fences – Lesser Oceans (Elektra)
The German Panzer – Send Them All To Hell (Nuclear Blast)
Justin Townes Earle – Absent Fathers (Vagrant Records)
Meghan Trainor – Title (Epic)
Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper (Domino)
Thorr-Axe – Gates of Winter (Independent)

20 January
Alex Calder – Strange Dreams (Captured Tracks)
Belle & Sebastian – Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance  (Hostess Entertainment)
The Decemberists – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (Capitol)
Derek Grant – Breakdown (Independent)
Enter Shikari – The Mindsweep (Hopeless Records)
Fallout Boy – American Beauty/American Psycho (Island/DCD2)
Hanni El Khatib – Moonlight (Innovative Leisure)
Hidden In The Sun – Seven Seasons (Independent)
Joey Bada$$ – B4.DA.$$ (Cinematic Music/Pro Era)
Marilyn Manson – The Pale Emperor(Loma Vista Recordings/Concord Music Group)
MellowToy – Lies (Scarlet Records)
Messiah’s Kiss – Get Your Bulls Out! (Massacre Records)
Mikky Ekko – Time (RCA Records)
Sick Feeling – Suburban Myth (Terrible Records/Collect Records)
The Sidekicks – Runners In The Nerved World (Epitaph)
Siskiyou – Nervous (Constellation)
Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love (Sub Pop )
The Waterboys – Modern Blues (+180 Records)
Viet Cong – Viet Cong (Jagjaguwar)

26 January
Gaz Coombes – Matador (Universal)
Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega (Sumerian Records)
The Phantom Band – Fears Trending (Chemikal Underground)
Solefald – Kosmopolis Sud (Indie Recordings)
Xibalba – Tierra Y Libertad (Southern Lord)

27 January
Battle Beast – Unholy Savior (Nuclear Blast)
Corey Dargel – OK, It’s Not OK (New Amsterdam Records)
Danny Kroha – Angels Watching Over Me (Third Man Records)
Dengue Fever – The Deepest Lake (MRI)
The Dodos – Individ (Polyvinyl Records)
Doomtree – All Hands (Doomtree Records)
Fifth Harmony – Reflection (Epic)
Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Jan St. Werner – Miscontinuum Album (1-800 Dinosaur)
Man Without Country – Maximum Entropy (Lost Balloon)
Mark Ronson – Uptown Special (Columbia)
Napalm Death – Apex Predator – Easy Meat (Century Media)
Pond – Man It Feels Like Space Again (10 Spot)
Ty Segall – Live In San Francisco (Castle Face)
Venom – From The Very Depths (Spinefarm Records)
Young Ejecta – The Planet (Driftless Records)

30 January
Callisto – Secret Youth (Svart Records)

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Album Streams:

AC/DC – Rock Or Bust

Astrakhan – A Tapestry Of Scabs And Skin

Charli XCX – Sucker

D’Angelo – Black Messiah

Geotic – Sunset Mountain (Eon Isle)

Ghostface Killah – 36 Seasons

PRhyme – PRhyme

She & Him – Classics

The Smashing Pumpkins – Monuments To An Elegy

Wu-Tang Clan – A Better Tomorrow

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

Dec. 9th – 15th

Staff :

1. Sharon Van Etten
2. Interpol
3. Kenn Nardi
4. Fair To Midland
5. Anberlin
6. Godflesh
7. Azealia Banks
8. Isaiah Rashad
9. Lunik
10. Jakob

Contributors:

1. The National
2. Kanye West
3. Bon Iver
4. Modest Mouse
5. Trophy Scars
6. Circa Survive
7. Run The Jewels
8. The War On Drugs
9. A$AP Rocky
10. Gates

Community:

1. Run The Jewels
2. Modest Mouse
3. Brand New
4. Kanye West
5. The National
6. Radiohead
7. Swans
8. Flying Lotus
9. Weezer
10. Deftones