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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 17th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

36 Crazyfists – Time & Trauma (Spinefarm Records)
The Amazing – Picture You (PTKF)
Anthony Naples – Body Pill (Text Records)
Black Rivers – Black Rivers (Ignition Records) – SowingSeason
Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth – Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth (Neurot Recordings)
Colin Hay – Next Year People (Compass Records)
Elle King – Love Stuff (RCA)
Estelle – True Romance (BMG Rights Management)
Ibeyi – Ibeyi (XL Records)
Imagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors (Interscope Records)
José González- Vestiges & Claws (Mute)
The Juliana Hatfield Three – Whatever, My Love (American Laundromat Records)
Kate Pierson – Guitars & Microphones (+180 Records)
Kodaline – Coming Up For Air (RCA Records)
Letts – Hold Fast (Vagrant Records)
Lyal Strickland – Balanced On Barbed Wire (Self released)
The Mavericks – Mono (Valory)
Mourn – Mourn (Captured Tracks)
Nedelle Torrisi – Advice From Paradise (Ethereal Sequence)
A Place To Bury Strangers – Transfixation (Dead Oceans)
Six Organs Of Admittance – Hexadic (Drag City)
Sonny & The Sunsets – Talent Night At The Ashram (Polyvinyl Records)
Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) – Terraplane (New West Records)
Twin River – Should The Light Go Out (+180 Records)
War On Women – War On Women (10 Spot Records)
Whitehorse – Leave No Bridge Unburned (Six Shooter Records)
Whyzdom – Symphony For A Hopeless God (Scarlet Records)
William Ryan Fritch – Revisionist (Lost Tribe Sound)

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Album Streams:

The Amazing – Picture You

Ibeyi – Ibeyi

José González – Vestiges & Claws

The Mavericks – Mono

A Place To Bury Strangers – Transfixation

Six Organs Of Admittance – Hexadic

Sonny & The Sunsets – Talent Night At The Ashram

Twin River – Should The Light Go Out

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

Staff :

1. Aphex Twin
2. D’Angelo
3. Burial
4. Sleater-Kinney
5. Yuck
6. System Of A Down
7. Cymbals Eat Guitars
8. Lupe Fiasco
9. Teebs
10. Two Gallants

Contributors:

1. Burial
2. The National
3. Weezer
4. Grimes
5. Hammock
6. A$AP Rocky
7. Death Grips
8. Jessie Ware
9. R.E.M.
10. Blink-182

Community:

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