Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 11, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

3 – The Ghost You Gave to Me (Metal Blade)
Absolute Body Control – Wind[Re]Wind (Metropolis Records)
Absu – Abzu (Candlelight)
Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire (Capitol Records) — Rudy Klapper
Lauren Alaina – Wildflower (Mercury Nashville)
Amebix – Sonic Mass (Easy Action)
Angelspit – Hello My Name Is (Metropolis Records)
As You Drown – Rat King (Metal Blade)
Bella Novela – The Archeress (Self Released)
Binary Park – The Deviated (Metropolis Records)
Bjork – Biophilia (Nonesuch) — Nick Butler
Casiokids – Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen (Polyvinyl Records)
Charred Walls of the Damned – Cold Winds on Timeless Days (Metal Blade)
Crooked Fingers – Breaks In The Armor (Merge Records)
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lenses Alien (Barsuk)
Divine Ascension – As The Truth Appears (Nightmare Records)
Electric Six – Heartbeats and Brainwaves (Metropolis Records)
Erasure – Tomorrow’s World (Mute)
Evanescence – Evanescence (Wind-Up)
The Field – Lopping State Of Mind (Kompakt Germany) — Deviant
Five Finger Death Punch – American Capitalist (Prospect Park)
Future Islands – On the Water (Thrill Jockey)
Graveworm – Fragments Of Death {EU} (Massacre Records)
John Wesley Harding – The Sound of His Own Voice (Yep Roc Records)
Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do (Republic)
Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos (Kranky)
Joe Henry – Reverie (Anti-)
High Places – Original Colors (Thrill Jockey)
I Am The Avalanche – Avalanche United (I SURRENDER RECORDS)
Marketa Irglova – Anar (Anti-)
Joe Jonas – Fastlife (Disney)
Ben Lee – Deeper Into Dreams (Dangerbird)
Modeselektor – Monkeytown (Monkeytown)
Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two (Inside Out)
Paley and Francis – Paley and Francis (Sonic Unyon)
Redemption – This Mortal Coil (Inside Out)
Remember Remember – The Quickening (Megaforce)
Rich Richardson – Through A Crooked Sun (Thirty Tigers)
The Rifles – Freedom Run (Nettwerk Records)
Rocket From The Crypt – Barfly (Fire Records)
William Shatner – Seeking Major Tom (Cleopatra)
Shiv-r – This World Erase (Metropolis Records)
Star Fucking Hipsters – From the Dumpster To the Grave (Fat Wreck Chords)
Still Corners – Creatures Of An Hour (Sub Pop)
Nick Swisher – Believe (Abkco)
System Syn – All Seasons Pass (Metropolis Records)
This Is Hell – Black Mass (Rise Records)
Threat Signal – Threat Signal (Nuclear Blast)
Trapped Under Ice – Big Kiss Goodnight (Good Fight Music)
Wednesday 13 – Calling All Corpses (WEDNESDAY 13, LLC)
White Willow – Terminal Twilight (Laser’s Edge)
Rachel Yamagata – Chesapeake (Frankenfish)

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Album Streams (please inform us of any broken links/removed streams):

3 – The Ghost You Gave to Me

Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire

Divine Ascension – As The Truth Appears

Evanescence – Evanescence

Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two

Star Fucking Hipsters – From the Dumpster To the Grave

This Is Hell – Black Mass

White Willow – Terminal Twilight

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

Staff:

01) The Jezabels
02) Parades
03) Jenny Hval
04) Kiss Kiss
05) Fair to Midland
06) J Cole
07) Maps & Atlases
08) Unwound
09) Chad VanGaalen
10) Thrice

Contributors:

01) Radiohead
02) Thrice
03) Opeth
04) Animal Collective
05) blink-182
06) St. Vincent
07) Brand New
08) Bjork
09) Unwound
10) Daft Punk

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