Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 21, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Olafur Arnalds – Another Happy Day (Erased Tapes)
Blood Sweat & Tears – In Concert (Wounded Bird Records)
Bonobo – Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
Buckethead – Electric Sea (Metastation)
Busdriver – Beaus$Eros (Fake Four Inc.)
Cheap Girls – Giant Orange (Rise Records)
The Chieftains – Voice of Ages (Hear Music)
Cursive – I am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Davidian – Our Fear is Their Force (Massacre Records)
Dodgy – Stand Upright in a Cool Place (Strikeback)
Drudkh- Eternal Turn of the Wheel (Season of Mist)
Elmsfire – Thieves of the Sun (Massacre Records)
Eluveitie – Helvetios (Nuclear Blast)
Farewell Republic – Burn the Boats (Self Released) — SowingSeason
Field Music – Plumb (Memphis Industries) — SowingSeason
fun. – Some Nights (Fueled By Ramen) — Adam Knott
Galactic – Carnivale Electricos (ANTI-)
Grimes – Visions (4AD) — Conrad Tao
Gary Husband – Dirty And Beautiful: Volume 2 (Abstract Logix)
Jeff Hamilton Trio – Red Sparkle (Capri)
Imminent Sonic Destruction – Recurring Themes (Self Released) — Trey Spencer
Infinito 2017 – Conquest of the More v.1 (Joe Left Hand Rec.)
Jonquil – Point of Go (Dovecote Records)
Damien Jurado – Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Lambchop – Mr. M (Merge Records)
Terry Malts – Killing Time (Slumberland Records)
The Menzingers – On The Impossible Past (Epitaph) — Davey Boy
miss A – Touch (JYP Entertainment)
Morbid Angel – Illud Divinum Insanus-The Remixes (Season of Mist)
My Best Friend – In Ghostlike Fading (Warp Records)
Nightqueen – For Queen and Metal (Massacre Records)
No Trigger – Tycoon (No Sleep Records)
Sinead O’Connor – How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? (One Little Indian US)
One Finger Riot – Come Drag Me Down (Post Planetary)
Sara Radle – Same Sun Shines (Jeez Louise Records)
Rage – 21 {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Rehab – Gullible Travels (Average Joe’s Ent.)
Frankie Rose – Interstellar (Slumberland Records)
The Sidekicks – Awkward Breeds (Red Scare)
Simple Minds – X5 (EMI)
Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror (Mom & Pop Music) — Adam Thomas
Starseed – Peace Machine (Starseed)
Tindersticks – The Something Rain (Constellation)
Tyga – Careless World: Rise of the Last King (Universal Republic)

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Album Streams:

Jonquil – Point of Go

Sara Radle – Same Sun Shines

The Sidekicks – Awkward Breeds

Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror

Starseed – Peace Machine

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

Staff:

01) Burial
02) The Flaming Lips
03) fun.
04) Arcade Fire
05) Thrice
06) Pavement
07) Deerhunter
08) The Beatles
09) Nada Surf
10) Spoon

General Users:

01) Burial
02) Bon Iver
03) Brand New
04) Radiohead
05) Thrice
06) The National
07) Kanye West
08) Converge
09) M83
10) Mastodon

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