Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 30, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

!!! [Chik Chik Chik] – THR!!!ER  (Warp Records)
Adelaine – Currents (Mosaic Artistry Group)
Adventure – Weird Work (Carpark Records)
The Airborne Toxic Event – Such Hot Blood (Island)
Akron/Family – Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
Alessi’s Ark – The Still Life (Bella Union)
Alice Russell – To Dust  (Tru Thoughts)
Amorphis – Circle (Nuclear Blast America)
Ark Of The Covenant – Self Harvest (Facedown)
Beacon – The Ways We Separate (Ghostly International)
Big Black Delta – Big Black Delta (Masters Of Bates)
Big Country – The Journey (MRI Associated)
The Body – Master, We Perish (At A Loss)
Bring Me The Horizon – Sempiternal (Epitaph)
Buckeye Knoll – Lovecreek (Up On A Hill)
Cathedral – The Last Spire (Metal Blade)
Cayucas – Bigfoot (Secretly Canadian)
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! – Pardon My French (Fearless Records)
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3 (Constellation)
Coliseum – Sister Faith (Temporary Residence) – Greg Fisher
Daughter – If You Leave (Glassnote)
Daylight – Jar (Run For Cover)
The Earth And Everything In It – We Wander At Night (Minerald Sound Recordings)
Famous Last Words – Two-Faced Charade (Invogue Records)
Guided By Voices – English Little League (Guided By Voices)
Hanni El Khatib – Head In The Dirt (Innovative Leisure)
Heaven Shall Burn – Veto (Century Media)
HIM – Tears On Tape (Razor & Tie)
House Of Heroes – The Knock-Down Drag-Outs (House Of Heroes)
Howl – Bloodlines (Relapse)
Iggy & The Stooges – Ready To Die (Fat Possum Records)
Jessica Campbell – The Anchor & The Sail (Little London Records)
Jessica Sanchez – Me, You & The Music (19 Records/Interscope)
Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi & Keiji Haino  – Now While It’s Still Warm Let Us Pour In All The Mystery (Black Truffle)
Kenny Chesney – Life On A Rock (Blue Chair Records/ Columbia Nashville)
Lights – Siberia Acoustic (Last Gang Records)
LL Cool J – Authentic (429 Records)
Mechanical Swan – Black Dawn Romance (Bakerteam Records)
The Melvins – Everybody Loves Sausages (Ipecac Recordings)
Neon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect (Lex Records)
The Ocean – Pelagial (Metal Blade)
Os Mutantes – Fool Metal Jack (Varese Sarabande)
The Postelles – …And It Shook Me (+1 Records)
Purson – The Circle and the Blue Door (Metal Blade)
Randy Rogers Band – Trouble (MCA Nashville)
Rollin Hunt – The Phoney(Moniker Records)
Shannon McNally – Small Town Talk (Sacred Sumac Music)
Sharks – Selfhood (Rise Records)
Solar Bears – Supermigration (Planet Mu)
Streetlight Manifesto – The Hands That Thieve (Victory Records) – Eli Kleman
Ten Foot Polecats – Undertow (Hillgrass Bluebilly Records)
Tom Keifer – The Way Life Goes (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
Valleys – Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
The Weeks – Dear Bo Jackson (Serpents & Snakes Records)

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Album Streams:

Alessi’s Ark – The Still Life

Cayucas – Bigfoot

Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3

Daylight – Jar

Iggy & The Stooges – Ready To Die

Jessica Campbell – The Anchor & The Sail

Os Mutantes – Fool Metal Jack

Shannon McNally – Small Town Talk

Tom Keifer – The Way Life Goes

Valleys – Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night?

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

Staff :

1. James Blake
2. Deerhunter
3. Kurt Vile
4. The Thermals
5. Major Lazer
6. Laura Stevenson & The Cans
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Yuck
9. Wu-Tang Clan
10. Sigur Ros

Contributors:

1. Deftones
2. Laura Stevenson & The Cans
3. Streetlight Manifesto
4. Explosions In The Sky
5. Ghostface Killah
6. James Blake
7. Daft Punk
8. Wu-Tang Clan
9. Death Grips
10. Eminem