Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 25th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alix Perez – Recall & Reflect (Exit Records)
Apollo Brown – Grandeur  (Mello Music)
Black Breath – Slaves Beyond Death (Southern Lord)
Boysetsfire – Boysetsfire (End Hits Records)
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye (Glassnote)
The Dead Weather – Dodge & Burn (Third Man Records)
The Dears – Times Infinity Vol. 1 (Dangerbird)
De Profundis – Kingdom Of The Blind (Wickerman Recordings)
Disclosure – Caracal (Capitol)
Doe Paoro – After (Anti/Epitaph)
Don Henley – Cass County (Capitol)
Dungen – Allas Sak (Mexican Summer)
Exxasens – Back To Earth (Aloud Music) – Raul Stanciu
Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (300 Entertainment)
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie (Rough Trade)
Grace & Tony – Phantasmagoric (Self-released)
Huntress – Static (Napalm Records)
JR JR. – JR JR. (Warner Bros.)
Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness (Domino Recording Co.)
Kaskade – Automatic (Warner Bros.)
Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down (Matador Records)
Kwabs – Love + War (Atlantic)
Los Lobos – Gates Of Gold (429 Records)
Lucero – All A Man Should Do (ATO Records)
Matthew Good – Chaotic Neutral (Warner Music Canada)
Monogold – Good Heavens (Self-released)
New Order – Music Complete (Mute)
No Devotion – Permanence (Collect Records)
Parkway Drive – Ire (Epitaph)
Patty Griffin –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 4th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Against Me! – 23 Live Sex Acts (Total Treble)
Amorphis – Under The Red Cloud (Nuclear Blast)
Animal Collective – Live At 9:30 (Domino Recording Company)
The Arcs – Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch)
Cruciamentum – Charnel Passages (Profound Lore)
Dâm-Funk – Invite The Light (Stones Throw)
The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise (Equal Vision Records)
Diane Coffee – Everybody’s A Good Dog (Western Vinyl)
FIDLAR – Too (Mom & Pop Music)
Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six (Prospect Park Records)
Helen – Original Faces (Kranky)
Iron Maiden – Book Of Souls (BMG Recorded Music)
Jerusalem In My Heart – If He Dies, If If If If If If (Constellation)
Joey Cape – Stitch Puppy (Fat Wreck Chords)
K-os – Can’t Fly Without Gravity (Dine Alone Music)
Lou Barlow – Brace The Wave (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Master Musicians Of Bukkake – Further West Quad Cult (Important Records) – Raul Stanciu
The Money Pit – The Money Pit (BC Music)
Motives – This World, Not Dead, Merely Sleeping (InVogue Records)
Mueller_Roedelius – Imagori (Groenland)
Painted Palms – Horizons (Polyvinyl Records)
Prince – HITNRUN (Tidal Digital Exclusive)
Public Image Ltd. – What The World Needs Now… (PiL Official)
Rob Moir – Adventure Handbook (Underground Operations)
The…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 28th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ahab – The Boats Of The Glen Carrig (Napalm Records)
Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop Records) – Rudy K.
Cold Showers – Matter Of Choice (Dais Records)
Defeater – Abandoned (Epitaph)
Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge Records)
Drinks – Hermits On Holiday (Birth Records)
Foals – What Went Down (Warner Bros.)
The Fratellis – Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied (Cooking Vinyl/MRI Entertainment)
Frog Eyes – Pickpocket’s Locket (Paper Bag)
Grandchildren – Zuni (Ernest Jenning)
I See Stars – Phases (Sumerian Records)
The Jet Age – Destroy.Rebuild (Sonic Boomerang Records)
Kahn, Commodo & Gantz – Vol. 1 (Deep Medi Musik)
Liam Corcoran – ROM-DROM (Fontana North)
Mike Krol – Turkey (Merge Records)
Monk Parker – How The Spark Loves The Tinder (Bronzerat Records)
Motörhead – Bad Magic (UDR)
Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast)
Pentagram – Curious Volume (Peaceville Records)
Silicon – Personal Computer (Weird World)
Soilwork – The Ride Majestic (Nuclear Blast)
Stolen Jars – Kept (Self-released) [Digital Only]
Tad Morose – St. Demonius (Despotz Records)
Tamaryn – Cranekiss (Mexican Summer)
Tijuana Panthers – Poster (Innovative Leisure)
The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (Republic)
Willis Earl Beal – Nocturnes (Tender Loving Empire)
Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 21st, 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Adrien Reju – Strange Love And The Secret Language (Zip Records)
Battlecross – Rise To Power (Metal Blade)
Bon Jovi – Burning Bridges (Mercury Records)
Briana Marela – All Around Us (Jagjaguwar)
Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION (Silent Records/Giant Little Man)
Cocksure – Corporate Sting (Metropolis Records)
Disturbed – Immortalized (Reprise) – Irving Tan
Gardens & Villa – Music For Dogs (Secretly Canadian Records)
Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista) – Jom
Hate Eternal – Infernus (Season Of Mist)
Jordin Sparks – Right Here, Right Now (RAL)
Kadavar – Berlin (Nuclear Blast)
Kip Moore – Wild Ones (MCA Nashville)
Method Man – The Meth Lab (Tommy Boy Entertainment/LLC)
The Murder Of My Sweet – Beth Out Of Hell (Belle Antique)
Myrkur – M (Relapse)
Noah Gundersen – Carry The Ghost (Dualtone Music)
P.O.D. – The Awakening (T-Boy Records/UMe)
Paul Smith & The Intimations – Contradictions (PIAS)
Publicist UK – Forgive Yourself (Relapse)
Racoon Bandit – Close Your Eyes (Self-Released)
Radkey – Dark Black Makeup (+180 Records)
Rivers Of Nihil – Monarchy (Metal Blade)
The Road Chief – All My Love (Cascine)
Rob Thomas – The Great Unknown (Atlantic)
Royal Headache – High (What’s Your Rupture)
Salvador Santana – Fantasy Reality (Various Music)
Sarah McQuaid – Walking…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 14th, 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Bullet For My Valentine – Venom (RCA)
Don Broco – Automatic (Search & Destroy Records)
Gangrene – You Disgust Me (Mass Appeal Records)
The Good Life – Everybody’s Coming Down (Saddle Creek Records)
Grace Potter – Midnight (Hollywood Records)
Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby (Atlantic)
New Politics – Vikings (Warner Bros.)
Pat Green – Home (Greenhorse Music)
Pete Nolan – Easy (Arbitrary Signs)
Stray From The Path – Subliminal Criminals (Sumerian Records)
Soulfly – Archangel (Nuclear Blast)
Teen Daze – Morning World (Paper Bag)

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Album Streams:

Bullet For My Valentine – Venom

Grace Potter – Midnight

Soulfly – Archangel

Teen Daze – Morning World

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 7th, 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alessandro Cortini – Risveglio (Hospital Productions)
Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction (Metal Blade)
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
Craig Marshall – After All (Big Ticket Records)
Deaf Wish – Pain (Sub Pop Records)
Dr. Dre – Compton (Aftermath) [Digital Only]
Enabler – Fail To Feel Safe (Century Media)
Fear Factory – Genexus (Nuclear Blast) – Trey Spencer
Frank Turner – Positive Songs For Negative People (Interscope)
Georgia – Georgia (Domino Recording Company)
Golden Rules – Golden Ticket (Lex Records)
HEALTH – Death Magic (Loma Vista) – Rudy K.
I Am The Albatross – Lonesome Son (Rail Rider)
Iris DeMent – Trackless Woods (Flariella Records)
Joe Plummer – Built In Sun (People In A Position To Know Records)
Krisiun – Forged In Fury (Century Media)
La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
LHF – For The Thrown (Keysound Recordings) [Vinyl Only]
Luke Bryan – Kill The Lights (Capitol Nashville)
The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It (Caroline Records)
Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
Miss May I – Deathless (Rise Records)
The Mynabirds – Lovers Know (Saddle Creek Records)
Never Shout Never – Black Cat (Warner Bros.)
Night Beds – Ivywild (Dead Oceans)
The Phoenix Foundation – Give Up…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 31st, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Albert Hammond, Jr. – Momentary Masters (Vagrant)
Camera Shy – Camera Shy (Run For Cover Records)
CFCF – Radiance And Submission (Driftless Recordings)
Daniel Romano – If I’ve Only One Time Askin’ (New West Records)
Elbow – Lost Worker Bee (Polydor) – Irving Tan
Gunplay – Living Legend (Def Jam)
Insane Clown Posse – Marvelous Missing Link (Psychopathic)
Joss Stone – Water For Your Soul (Kobalt)
Kataklysm – Of Ghosts And Gods (Nuclear Blast US)
Knuckle Puck – Copacetic (Rise Records)
Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch)
Migos – Yung Rich Nation (300 Entertainment)
Mocky – Key Change (Heavy Sheet)
Ricardo Donoso – Machine To Machine (Denovali)
The Strypes – Little Victories (Virgin EMI)
Teenage Time Killers – Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Rise Records)
Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge Records) – SowingSeason
Xandria – Fire & Ashes (Napalm Records)

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Album Streams:

Lianne La Havas – Blood

Migos – Yung Rich Nation

Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy

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

Staff :

1. Jamie xx
2. Electrosoul System
3. Carly Rae Jepsen
4. Faith No More
5. Cradle Of Filth
6. Ben Howard
7. Florence + The Machine
8. Modest Mouse
9. mewithoutYou
…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 24th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ashley Monroe – The Blade (Warner Music Nashville)
Brigades – Indefinite (Pure Noise)
The Bunny The Bear – A Liar Wrote This (Victory Records) – Davey Boy
Counterparts – Tragedy Will Find Us (Pure Noise)
Cult Leader – Useless Animal (Deathwish Inc.)
Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino Recording Company)
The Dustbowl Revival – With A Lampshade On (Signature Sounds)
Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (Yep Roc Records)
Eleventh Dream Day – Work For Tomorrow (Thrill Jockey)
Field Music – Music For Drifters (Memphis Industries)
Jill Scott – Woman (Atlantic)
Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova (Legacy)
Kasey Chambers – Bittersweet (Sugar Hill)
Lamb Of God – VII: Sturm Und Drang (Epic)
Locrian – Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
Loop – Array 1 (ATP Recordings)
Madchild – Silver Tongue Devil (Battle Axe Records)
Northlane – Node (Rise Records)
Old Man Luedecke – Domestic Eccentric (True North Records)
Omar Souleyman – Bahdemi Nami (Monkeytown)
On An On – And The Wave Has Two Side (Roll Call Records)
Ricked Wicky – King Heavy Metal (Guided By Voices)
Sleaford Mods – Key Markets (Harbinger Sound)
Strange Wilds – Subjective Concepts (Sub Pop Records)
Symphony X – Underworld (Nuclear Blast America)
Tim Bowness – Stupid Things That Mean The World (Inside Out US) – Raul Stanciu
Trae Tha Truth –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 17th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alan Jackson – Angels & Alcohol (Capitol Nashville)
Bassnectar – Into The Sun (Amorphous Music)
The Bird And The Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum Records)
The Chemical Brothers – Born In The Echoes (Astralwerks)
Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room – Party Adjacent (Asian Man)
Dragonforce – In The Line Of Fire (Ear Music)
Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals 2015 (Drag City)
Future – DS2 (Epic)
Galactic – Into The Deep (Provogue)
Iron Wine & Ben Bridwell – Sing Into My Mouth (Black Cricket/Brown Records)
Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free (Southeastern Records)
MS MR – How Does It Feel (Columbia)
Ninja Sex Party – Attitude City (CD Baby)
Pitbull – Dale (Sony Latin)
Ratatat – Magnifique (XL Recordings)
Sublime With Rome – Sirens (InGrooves)
Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope) – Rudy K.
Team Sleep – Woodstock Sessions Vol. 4 (Woodstock Sessions)
Tearjerker – Stay Wild (Self-released)
White Reaper – White Reaper Does It Again (Polyvinyl Records)
Wilco – Star Wars (Self-released)
Xander Duell – Wade Laiste (INGRID)

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Album Streams:

The Chemical Brothers – Born In The Echoes

Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals 2015

Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free

Ratatat – Magnifique

Tame Impala – Currents

Tearjerker – Stay Wild

White Reaper – White Reaper Does It Again

Wilco – Stars (free download)…

As Friday the 10th marks the first date under the global music industry’s paradigm shift into a more unified release schedule, your weekly news post will also be moving to the end of the week to honour the change (and to generally make things as easy as possible for yours truly). The change – which has eschewed multiple releases across the week in favour of one singular day – will affect 45 countries, and was put in place by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The conglomerate currently represents 1300 various record companies around the world.

Friday was chosen as the official day in an effort to curb piracy, as both physical and online stores peak with consumer traffic over the weekend. July was chosen in an effort to work out  and fine-tune any kinks prior to the holiday season.

For more on the topic, you can head over here. But for now, as always…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 10th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Between The Buried And Me – Coma Elliptic (Metal Blade)
Cody Simpson – Free (Bananabeat Records/Coast House)
Cradle Of Filth – Hammer Of The Witches (Nuclear Blast America) – Trey Spencer
Ego Likeness – When The Wolves Return (Metropolis Records)
Four Tet – Morning/Evening (Text Records)
Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons To Die II (Linear Labs)
KMFDM…

Please note that this will be the last weekly update post to be published at the beginning of the week. In lieu of Friday being recognised as the official “global release day”, this post will now be moving to the end of the week to accomodate the change. Check back in on Friday the 10th of July for your weekly news. And for information regarding the global release date change, you can head here

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 23rd, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Apathy – It’s The Bootleg, Muthafuckas! Vol. 4: The Black Lodge (Dirty Version Records)
Apathy – Weekend At The Cape (Dirty Version Records)
August Burns Red – Found In Far Away Places (Fearless Records)
Bang Gang – Wolves & Whispering (Idol)
Bilal – In Another Life (Entertainment One Music)
Dan Svizeny – Whitecaps (Group Tightener)
Failure – The Heart Is A Monster (Failure Records)
God Is An Astronaut – Helios/Erebus (Revive Records)
The Internet – Ego Death (Columbia)
Joy Williams – Venus (Columbia)
LA Priest – Inji (Domino Recording Company)
Man Overboard – Heavy Love (Rise Records) – Davey Boy
Matt Pond PA – The State Of Gold (Doghouse Records)
Miguel – Wildheart (RCA)
Refused – Freedom (Epitaph) – Dan H.
Rolo Tomassi – Grievances (Ipecac Recordings)
Tyga – The Gold Album: 18th Dynasty (Last King’s Music)
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We are currently hosting an AMA over on r/music at Reddit. If you’ve been dying to know if Irving’s nicest-guy-in-the-world persona is really just an act, if Davy prefers boxers or briefs, if I really am a robot, and what Sowing does to celebrate the publishing of another Taylor Swift review, then pop in here and flick us a question. Of course you could always ask what our ambitions for the website are, and what Sputnik truly means to us, but where’s the fun in that?

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 23rd, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Breaking Benjamin – Dark Before Dawn (Hollywood Records)
Bully – Feels Like (Columbia)
Creepoid – Cemetery Highrise Slum (Collect Records)
Desaparecidos – Payola (Epitaph)
Everything Everything – Get To Heaven (RCA/Sony)
Goblin Rebirth – Goblin Rebirth (Relapse)
Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi (Weird World)
Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville)
Leon Bridges – Coming Home (Columbia)
London O’Connor – O∆ (Self-released)
Mocky – Key Change (Heavy Sheet)
Neil Young & Promise Of The Real – The Monsanto Years (Reprise)
Pistol George Warren – Oceapur 9 (Self-released)
Richard Thompson – Still (Fantasy)
Rhapsody – Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus (Nuclear Blast America)
Son Lux – Bones (Glassnote)
T. Hardy Morris – Hardy & The Hardknocks: Drownin On A Mountaintop (Dangerbird)
Thy Art Is Murder – Holy War (Nuclear Blast America)
…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 16th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Active Child – Mercy (Vagrant)
Adam Lambert – The Original High (Warner Bros.)
Amos Lee – Live At Red Rocks With The Colorado Symphony (ATO Records)
Ben Browning – Turns (Yellow Year)
Calvin Love – Super Future (Arts & Crafts)
DJ Koze – DJ-Kicks: DJ Koze (K7)
Heartless Bastards – Restless Ones (PTKF) – Rudy K.
Hilary Duff – Breathe In. Breathe Out (RCA)
Hudson Mohawke – Lantern (Warp Records)
Ike Reilly – Born On Fire (Rock Ridge Music)
James Taylor – Before This World (Concord)
The Lonesome Trio – The Lonesome Trio (Sugar Hill)
mewithoutYou – Pale Horses (Run For Cover Records/LLC) – SowingSeason
Mika – No Place In Heaven (Republic)
Nate Ruess – Grand Romantic (WEA/Fueled By Ramen)
The Ongoing Concept – Homemade (Solid State)
Outfit – Slowness (Memphis Industries)
Ryn Weaver – The Fool (Interscope)
Third Eye Blind – Dopamine (Mega Collider)
Walk Of The Earth – Sing It All Away (Columbia)

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Album Streams:

Active Child – Mercy

Hudson Mohawke – Lantern

mewithoutYou – Pale Horses

Ryn Weaver – The Fool

Walk Of The Earth – Sing It All Away

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

Staff :

1. Sufjan Stevens
2. Nirvana
3. Cairo Knife Fight
4. In Flames
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Before we get started, a quick round of applause to both Manosg and Paradox1216 who were recently promoted to the contributor pool. Congratulations guys, and we wish you well in your new surroundings. Just make sure you close the door behind you, we don’t want Hep Kat sneaking in.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 14th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Calexico – Edge Of The Sun (Anti Records)
The Damnwells – The Damnwells (Rock Ridge Music)
Dwight Yoakam – Second Hand Heart (Warner Bros.)
Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit: I Don’t Go Outside (Columbia) – Jonny Hunter
fLako – Natureboy (Five Easy Pieces)
Greg Holden – Chase The Sun (Warner Bros.)
Halestorm – Into The Wild Life (Atlantic)
James Pants – Savage (Stones Throw)
Jeremy Bass – Winter Bare (Self-released)
John Andrews & The Yawns – Bit By The Fang (Woodsist)
Keller Williams – Vape (Self-released)
Lee Harvey Osmond – Beautiful Scars (Latent Recordings)
Looper – Offgrid:Offline (Mute)
Lowland Hum – Lowland Hum (Self-released)
Now And On Earth – Blacked Out (Epitaph)
Reba McEntire – Love Somebody (Big Machine Records)
Second Storey & Appleblim – ALSO (R&S Records)
Stranger Cat – In The Wilderness (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Suuns And Jerusalem In My Heart – Suuns And Jerusalem In My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
Trickfinger – Trickfinger (Acid Test)
Villagers – Darling Arithmetic (Domino Recording Co.)

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 7th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Aceyalone – Action (Bionik Music)
All Time Low – Future Hearts (Hopeless Records)
American Wrestlers – American Wrestlers (Fat Possum)
Blues Traveler – Blow Up The Moon (Loud & Proud Records)
Brian Wilson – No Pier Pressure (Capitol)
Darius Koski – Sisu (Fat Wreck Chords)
Delta Rae – After It All (Sire)
Doldrums – The Air Conditioned Nightmare (Sub Pop Records)
Drenge – Undertow (Infectious Music)
Drug Cabin – Wiggle Room (401K Music)
DTCV – Uptime! (Xemu Records)
East India Youth – Culture Of Volume (XL Recordings)
Enforcer – From Beyond (Nuclear Blast America)
Folk Family Revival – Water Walker (Rock Ridge Music)
Lapalux – Lustmore (Brainfeeder)
Lord Huron – Strange Trails (IAMSOUND)
Marriages – Salome (Sargent House)
Matt & Kim – New Glow (Harvest)
The Mountain Goats – Beat The Champ (Merge Records)
Only Real – Jerk At The End Of The Line (Virgin EMI)
Portico – Living Fields (Ninja Tune)
Priory – Need To Know (Warner Bros.)
Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
Scuba – Claustrophobia (Hotflush Recordings)
Shlohmo – Dark Red (True Panther Sounds)
Sworn In – The Lovers/The Devil (Razor & Tie)
Toro Y Moi – What For? (Carpark Records)
The Very Best – Makes A King (PIAS America)
The Waterboys – Modern Blues (Kobalt)
Waters- What’s Real (Vagrant Records)
Waxahatchee – Ivy Tripp (Merge…