Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 24, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Andrew St James – Doldrums (Fortune Records)
Au Revoir Simone – Move In Spectrums (Instant Records)
Audio – Bag Of Bones (Blackout Records)
Bleach Blonde – Starving Artist  (Rise Records)
Buried Beds – In Spirit (Devinyl Records)
Cher – Closer To The Truth (Warner Bros.)
Chvrches – The Bones Of What You Believe (Glassnote) – Eli Kleman
Deals Death – Point Zero Solution (Spinefarm)
Deer Tick – Negativity (Partisan Records)
Drake – Nothing Was The Same (Cash Money) – Adam Thomas
Elton John – The Diving Board (Capitol Records/Universal)
Frankie Rose – Herein Wild (Fat Possum Records)
Ghostpoet – Some Say I So I Say Light (Play It Again Sam)
Gov’t Mule – Shout! (Blue Note/Universal)
Ha Ha Tonka – Lessons (Bloodshot Records)
Huerco S. – Collonial Patterns (Software)
Icona Pop – This Is… Icona Pop (Big Beat/WEA)
The Internet – Feel Good (Odd Future)
INVSN – INVSN (Razor & Tie)
Jesu – Every Day I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came (Shellshock)
Kelley Stoltz – Double Exposure (Third Man Records)
Kings Of Leon – Mechanical Bull (RCA)
Lovers – A Friend In The World (Badman Records)
Matthew Good – Arrows Of Desire (Frostbyte) – Irving Tan
Mazzy Star – Seasons Of Your Day (Rhymes Of An Hour Records)
Metallica – Metallica Through The Never Soundtrack (Blackened Recordings)
Oh Land – Wish Bone (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
Pink Martini – Get Happy (Heinz Records)
Promised Land Sound – Promised Land Sound (Paradise Bachelors)
Sammy Hagar – Sammy Hagar & Friends (Frontiers Records/Universal)
A Skylit Drive – Rise (Tragic Hero Records)
Sons Of The Sea – Sons Of The Sea (AVOW! Records)
Steel Cranes – Ouroboros (Steel Cranes)
Stewart Eastham – The Man I Once Was (Long Bar Music)
Sting – The Last Ship (Cheerytree/Interscope)
Touché Amoré – Is Survived By (Deathwish) – John Hanson
Trentemøller – Lost (In My Room)
Veara – Growing Up Is Killing Me (Epitaph)
Willie Nelson – To All The Girls… (Legacy)
Yoko Ono – Take Me To The Land Of Hell (Chimera Music)

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Album Streams:

Au Revoir Simone – Move In Spectrums

Cher – Closer To The Truth

Chvrches – The Bones Of What You Believe

Drake – Nothing Was The Same

Elton John – The Diving Board

Ha Ha Tonka – Lessons

Mazzy Star – Seasons Of Your Day

Oh Land – Wishbone

Trentemøller – Lost

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

Staff :

1. Regina Spektor
2. Bill Callahan
3. Touché Amoré
4. Tom Waits
5. Feist
6. Run The Jewels
7. Sebadoh
8. Black Sabbath
9. Sonic Youth
10. Chvrches

Contributors:

1. Drake
2. Into It. Over It
3. Touché Amoré
4. Run The Jewels
5. Cloudkicker
6. Modest Mouse
7. Monster Magnet
8. Sadistik
9. Ef
10. Moving Mountains

Community:

1. Touché Amoré
2. The National
3. Arctic Monkeys
4. Brand New
5. Radiohead
6. Queens Of The Stone Age
7. Deafheaven
8. Arcade Fire
9. Nine Inch Nails
10. Drake