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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 20th, 2018.  Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.  As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.

Featured Release

A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant
Genre: Alternative Rock
Label: BMG
[Review]

“Why does Maynard look like he belongs in year 2000 Mudvayne?” –TheSpirit

Almost 15 years since Thirteenth Step (because nobody really wants to talk about eMOTIVe, right?), Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel, and the rest of the band return with an appreciably moody offering, where themes of accountability, entitlement, and mortality percolate throughout the record. While Maynard acknowledged in a Rolling Stone interview that musicians might “not want to be too topical, because then you date your art”, his observations in contemporary times might continue to be just as applicable in another 15 years.

Apparently the latest trend for Sputnik darlings in their music videos is to stare at the camera at random intervals, although it’s unclear if “The Doomed” took inspiration of Steven Wilson. /s

– Sample List of Releases: April 20th, 2018 –

Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves
Genre: Hardcore
Label: Bat Skull

DRINKS – Hippo Lite
Genre: Experimental / Avant-Pop
Label: Drag City

J. Cole – K.O.D.
Genre: Hip-Hop
Label: Dreamville

Kimbra – Primal Heart
Genre: Electropop / Art Pop
Label: Warner Bros.

Lack the Low – One Eye Closed
Genre: Pop
Label: Art as Catharsis
[Review]

Lord Huron – Vide Noir
Genre: Indie / Folk
Label: Republic

Old Crow Medicine Show – Volunteer
Genre: Americana / Old-Time
Label: Columbia

Pennywise – Never Gonna Die
Genre: Punk
Label: Epitaph

Post Animal – When I Think of You in a Castle
Genre: Indie Rock
Label: Polyvinyl

Sangre de Muerdago – Noite
Genre: Dark Folk
Label: Sick Man Getting Sick

Sleep – The Sciences
Genre: Stoner Metal
Label: Third Man

TesseracT – Sonder
Genre: Progressive / Djent
Label: Kscope
[Review]

Thievery Corporation – Treasures from the Temple
Genre: Electronic
Label: ESL

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