Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 18, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Aimee Mann – Charmer (SuperEgo Records)
All The Right Moves – When Your Compass Breaks (All The Right Moves)
Alt-J – An Awesome Wave (Atlantic)
ASC – Lost Sync – Part 1 (Samurai Red Seal)
Band Of Horses – Mirage Rock (Columbia)
Becoming the Archetype – I Am (Solid State Records)
Ben Folds Five – The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind Out (Sony)
Big & Rich – Hillbilly Jedi (Warner Bros.)
Breakbot – By Your Side (Ed Banger/Because Music)
Brother Ali – Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color (Rhymesayers)
The Burning Of Rome – With Us (Surfdog)
Carly Rae Jespen – Kiss (Interscope Records)
Corin Tucker Band – Kill My Blues (Kill Rock Stars)
Data – Visualizations Vol. 3 (Horizons Music)
The Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud (HevyDevy) – Irving Tan Zhi Mian
Dinosaur Jr. – I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar)
Dwight Yoakam – 3 Pears (Warner Bros.)
Earlimart – System Preferences [Digital Release] (The Ship)
Easton Corbin – All Over The Road (Mercury Nashville)
Eddie Izzard – Live at Madison Square Garden (Largo/Epitaph)
Fourplay – Espirit De Four (Heads Up)
The Gaslamp Killer – Breakthrough (Brainfeeder)
GOOD Music – Cruel Summer (Island/Def-Jam)
The Goodnight – Keep Control (The Goodnight)
Go Radio – Close The Distance (Fearless Records)
Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp Records)
How To Dress Well – Total Loss (Acephale)
Hypno – Kancourde/K2 (Ramp Recordings)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Meat And Bone (Mom & Pop Music)
Keith Harkin – Keith Harkin (Verve)
Kid Koala – 12 Bit Blues (Ninja Tune)
The Killers – Battle Born (Island) – Rudy Klapper
Kreayshawn – Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay (Sony)
LV – Sebenza (Hyperdub)
Lymbyc System – Symbolyst (Western Vinyl)
Mala – Mala In Cuba (Brownswood Recordings) – Deviant
Martin Solveig – Smash (Big Beat/WEA)
Maztek – Galactica/Odyssey (Renegade Hardware)
Menomena – Moms (Barsuk)
Mike Ryan – Night Comes Falling (Smith Entertainment)
Mother Mother – The Sticks (Last Gang Records)
Nelly Furtado – The Spirit Indestructible (Interscope Records)
Octane & DLR – Method… In The Madness (Dispatch/Horizons)
Pink – The Truth About Love (RCA)
Pixelord – Supaplex (Civil)
Projected – Human (Yaya Papu)
Rickie Lee Jones – The Devil You Know (Concord Records)
Robert Pollard – Jack Sells The Cow (Guided By Voices)
Ryan Bingham – Tomorrowland (Axster Bingham Records)
The Sea And Cake – Runner (Thrill Jockey)
Set It Off – Cinematics (Equal Vision Records)
Sweet Lights – Sweet Lights (Redeye)
Title Fight – Floral Green (Side One Dummy)
TMSV – Stress/Lost (Box Clever)
Trevino – Indulge/Under Surveillance (Apple Pips)
Tyke – Nightmares (Griduk)
Woods – Bend Beyond (Woodsist)

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Album Streams:

Band Of Horses – Mirage

Ben Folds Five – The Sounds Of The Life Of The Mind

The Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud

Dinosaur Jr. – I Bet On Sky

Go Radio – Close The Distance

How To Dress Well – Total Loss

Kid Koala – 12 Bit Blues

Kreayshawn  – Something Bout Kreay

Mother Mother – The Sticks

Projected – Human

Rickie Lee Jones – The Devil You Know

Set It Off – Cinematics

Sweet Lights – Sweet Lights

Title Fight – Floral Green

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

Staff :

01) Animal Collective
02) Propagandhi
03) Grizzly Bear
04) Mount Eerie
05) Frank Ocean
06) Om
07) Pavement
08) Swans
09) Titus Andronicus
10) Eels

Contributors:

01) Dave Matthews Band
02) Stars Of The Lid
03) Beardfish
04) Sigur Ros
05) Yall
06) Meshuggah
07) Jars Of Clay
08) Henry Cowell
09) Anberlin
10) Burial