As Friday the 10th marks the first date under the global music industry’s paradigm shift into a more unified release schedule, your weekly news post will also be moving to the end of the week to honour the change (and to generally make things as easy as possible for yours truly). The change – which has eschewed multiple releases across the week in favour of one singular day – will affect 45 countries, and was put in place by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The conglomerate currently represents 1300 various record companies around the world.

Friday was chosen as the official day in an effort to curb piracy, as both physical and online stores peak with consumer traffic over the weekend. July was chosen in an effort to work out  and fine-tune any kinks prior to the holiday season.

For more on the topic, you can head over here. But for now, as always…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 10th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Between The Buried And Me – Coma Elliptic (Metal Blade)
Cody Simpson – Free (Bananabeat Records/Coast House)
Cradle Of Filth – Hammer Of The Witches (Nuclear Blast America) – Trey Spencer
Ego Likeness – When The Wolves Return (Metropolis Records)
Four Tet – Morning/Evening (Text Records)
Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons To Die II (Linear Labs)
KMFDM – Salvation (Metropolis Records)
Lakker – Tundra (Apollo Records)
Lee Bannon – Pattern Of Excel (Ninja Tune)
Little Boots – Working Girl (Dim Mak)
Owl City – Mobile Orchestra (Republic)
R5 – Sometime Last Night (Hollywood Records)
Tyrese – Black Rose (Voltron Recordz)
Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes (El Camino Media)
Years & Years – Communion (Interscope)

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Album Streams:

Between The Buried And Me – Coma Ecliptic

Four Tet – Morning/Evening

Little Boots – Working Girl

Owl City – Mobile Orchestra

Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes

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

Staff :

1. Jamie xx
2. Electrosoul System
3. Carly Rae Jepsen
4. Faith No More
5. Cradle Of Filth
6. Ben Howard
7. Florence + The Machine
8. Modest Mouse
9. mewithoutYou
10. Lil’ Wayne

Contributors:

1. Kanye West
2. mewithoutYou
3. Main Attrakionz
4. Iron Maiden
5. Judas Priest
6. August Burns Red
7. Arctic Monkeys
8. The Tallest Man On Earth
9. The Smith Street Band
10. Father John Misty

Community:

1. Kendrick Lamar
2. Jamie xx
3. mewithoutYou
4. Radiohead
5. August Burns Red
6. Kanye West
7. Vince Staples
8. Refused
9. Brand New
10. The National