Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 23, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alexa Borden – Rule The World (Borden Records)
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Lost Songs – Rudy Klapper (Superball Music)
Andy Burrows – Company (Play It Again, Sam)
Anita Baker – Only Forever (Blue Note Records/EMI)
Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man (Capitol)
Bayside – Covers (Vol. 1) (Gumshoe Records)
Behold The Arctopus – Horrorscension (Red General Catalog)
Being As An Ocean – Dear G-d (Invogue Records)
Billy Ray Cyrus – Change My Mind (Blue Cadillac Music)
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult)
Breach & Midland – 101/Somewhere (Naked Naked)
Bridgit Mendler – Hello My Name Is.. (Hollywood Records)
Clan Of Xymox – Kindred Spirits (Metropolis Records)
Colbie Caillat – Christmas In The Sand (Universal Republic)
Current Value – Quantum Physics (Barcode Recordings)
Current Value & Bryan Fury – Posthuman/Get Blood (Smackdown Recordings)
Darling Farah – Body: Remixed (Civil)
Diamond Rings – Free Dimensional (Astralwerks)
Dom & Roland – Strobe/Goliath (Dom & Roland Productions)
Fontanelle – Vitamin F (Southern Lord)
Further Seems Forever – Penny Black (Rise Records)
Gary Clark Jr. – Blak And Blu (Warner Bros.)
Germ – Loss (AIS)
A Life Once Lost – Ecstatic Trance (Season Of Mist)
Main Attrakionz – Bossalinis & Fooliyones (Red General Catalog)
Man In A Crowd – Don’t Paint Your Days So Gray (Man In A Crowd)
Monads – Intellectus Judicat Veritatem (Monads)
P.O.S. – We Don’t Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
Paul Banks – Banks (Matador Records)
Pelt – Effigy (MIE Music)
People Get Ready – People Get Ready (Brassland)
Peter Gabriel – So [25th Anniversary Immersion Box Set] (Real World Productions)
Pig Destroyer – Book Burner (Relapse)
Rah Rah – The Poet’s Dead (Hidden Pony Records)
Rick Berlin And The Nickel & Dime Band – Always On Insane (The Whitehaus Family Record)
RZA – The Man With The Iron Fists (Soul Temple Entertainment)
The Secret – Angus Dei (Southern Lord)
Shiny Toy Guns – III (Five Seven Music)
Silent Leges – Inter Arma (AIS)
Stone Sour – House Of Gold & Bones – Part 1 (Roadrunner Records)
Titus Andronicus – Local Business – Robin Smith (XL Recordings)
Tony Bennett – Viva Duets (Columbia)
Tweaker – Call The Time Eternity (Metropolis Records)
Vuvuzela – The Hollow Choir (Motor Oat Records)
Wintersun – Time I – Kyle Ward (Nuclear Blast America)

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Album Streams:

Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man

Bayside – Covers (Vol. 1)

Being As An Ocean – Dear G-d

Billy Ray Cyrus – Change My Mind

Bridgit Mendler – Hello My Name Is…

Diamond Rings – Free Dimensional

Peter Gabriel – So

RZA – The Man With The Iron Fists (Soundtrack)

Pig Destroyer – Book Burner

Shiny Toy Guns – III

Stone Sour – House Of Gold And Bones – Part 1

Titus Andronicus – Local Business

Tony Bennett – Viva Duets

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

Staff :

01) Converge
02) Godspeed You! Black Emperor
03) Flying Lotus
04) The Wrens
05) Neurosis
06) Propagandhi
07) Dustin O’Halloran
08) Grizzly Bear
09) Titus Andronicus
10) Kendrick Lamar

Contributors:

01) Converge
02) Meshuggah
03) Burial
04) Neurosis
05) Nonpoint
06) Coheed & Cambria
07) Plum
08) Bomb The Music Industry!
09) Monolithe
10) Oneohtrix Point never