Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 23rd, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alt-J – This Is All Yours (Atlantic)
Aphex Twin – Syro (Warp Records)
Asteroid No.4 – Asteroid No.4 (Bad Vibrations)
Bonnie – Singer’s Grave: A Sea Of Tongues (Drag City)
Chuck Prophet – Night Surfer (Yep Roc Records)
Cody Joe Tillman & The Wicked Truth – Cody Joe Tillman & The Wicked Truth  (Rock Ridge Music)
The Crooked Brothers – Thank You I’m Sorry (Transistor 66 Record Company)
Darian Reneé – The Other Side Of Someday (Darian Reneé)
Dntel – Human Voice (Stones Throw)
The Drums – Encyclopedia (InGrooves)
Empires – Orphan (Island)
Goat – Commune (Sub Pop)
The Growlers – Chinese Fountain (Redeye Label)
Imelda May – Tribal (Verve)
Information Society – _hello world (Hakatak)
J.P. Harris – Home Is Where The Hurt Is (Cow Island Music)
Jackie Evancho – Awakening (Sony Masterworks)
Jennifer Hudson – JHUD (RCA)
John Mellencamp – Plain Spoken (Motown/Universal)
Julian Casablancas & The Voidz – Tyranny (+180 Records)
Kenny Chesney – The Big Revival (Blue Chair Records/Columbia Nashville)
Kind Cousin – Tremendous Hem (Ma’am Records)
King Tuff – Black Moon Spell (Sub Pop)
Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett – Cheek To Cheek (Streamline/Interscope/Columbia)
Laetitia Sadier – Something Shines (Drag City)
Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems (Columbia)
Lights – Little Machines (Warner Bros.)
Marketa Irglova – Muna (Anti Records)
Matty Mullins – Matty Mullins (Rise Records)
Mr. Twin Sister – Mr. Twin Sister (Twin Group)
Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Matador Records)
Prude – The Dark Age Of Consent (Metropolis Records)
Purling Hiss – Weirdon (Drag City)
S – Cool Choices (Hardly Art)
Sequential Access – Sex Addicts Anonymous (Metropolis Records)
Silva – Ocean View (InGrooves)
Stryper – Live At The Whisky (Frontiers Records/Universal)
Suicideyear – Remembrance (Software)
Takako Minekawa & Dustin Wong – Savage Imagination (Thrill Jockey)
Tweedy – Sukierae (Anti Records)
Whirr – Sway (Graveface)

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Album Streams:

Alt-J – This Is All Yours

Aphex Twin – Syro (UK only)

The Crooked Brothers – Thank You I’m Sorry

Goat – Commune

Julian Casablancas & The Voidz – Tyranny

King Tuff – Black Moon Spell

Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems

Mr. Twin Sister – Mr. Twin Sister

Perfume Genius – Too Bright

Tweedy – Sukierae

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

Staff :

1. The War On Drugs
2. Fennesz
3. Kanye West
4. Royal Blood
5. Kimbra
6. Interpol
7. In Flames
8. Bruce Springsteen
9. FKA Twigs
10. Insomnium

Contributors:

1. Converge
2. U2
3. Interpol
4. Elliott Smith
5. In Flames
6. Radiohead
7. Banks
8. Kanye West
9. Neutral Milk Hotel
10. Bon Iver

Community:

1. Radiohead
2. The National
3. Interpol
4. Kanye West
5. Brand New
6. Banks
7. Mastodon
8. Converge
9. Opeth
10. Death From Above 1979