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New This Week, May 13

Abysmal Dawn - Programmed to Consume (Relapse)
The Bellrays - Hard, Sweet and Sticky (Anodyne)
Burzum - Anthology (Candlelight)
Coalesce - 0:12 (reissue) (Relapse)
Coldworker - Rotting Paradise (Relapse)
Warrel Dane - Praise to the War Machine (Century Media)
Daysleepers - Drowned in a Sea of Sound (Clairecords)
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
Deicide - 'Till Death Do Us Part (Earache)
Dosh - Wolves and Wishes (Anticon)
The Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living (Important)
The Instruments - Dark Smaland (Orange Twin)
Kassin + 2 - Futurismo (Luka Bop)
Local H - Twelve Angry Months (Shout! Factory)
Modey Lemon - Season of Sweets (Birdman)
Old 97's - Blame It on Gravity (New West)
Pia Fraus - After Summer (Clairecords)
Pomegranates - Everything Is Alive (Lujo)
The Presets - Apocalypso (Modular)
Quiet Village - Silent Movie (K7)
The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks (Nettwerk)
Venomous Concept - Poisoned Apple (Century Media)
We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery (Astralwerks)
Young and Sexy - The Arc (Mint)

Recent Releases

Rock/Misc. — Top
Barry Adamson - Back to the Cat (Central Control)
Air - Moon Safari: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Ed. [2CDs+DVD] (Astralwerks)
Animal Collective - Water Curses [EP] (Domino)
Annuals - Wet Zoo EP (Red Ink)
Ersi Arvizu - Friend For Life (Anti)
The Autumns - Fake Noise From A Box of Toys (Bella Union)
Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines (Ecstatic Peace)
Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Worlds (Kranky)
Black Francis - Svn Fngrs (Cooking Vinyl)
Bobby & Blumm - Everybody Loves Bobby & Blumm (Morr)
A. A. Bondy - American Hearts (re-release) (Fat Possum)
Boredoms - Super Roots 9 (Thrill Jockey)
Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice (Anti)
The Breeders - Mountain Battles (4AD)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground (Committee to Keep Music Evil)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti)
Chandeliers - The Thrush [import] (Pickled Egg)
Child Readers - Music Heard Far Off (Soft Abuse)
Clinic - Do It (Domino)
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornados) (Earthology)
Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light (Kranky)
The Constantines - Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Momofuku (Lost Highway)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
David Carsten Daniels - Fear of Flying (FatCat)
The Death Set - Worldwide (Counter)
The Drift - Memory Drawings (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
The Duke Spirit - Neptune (Artist First)
El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars (The Control Group)
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (Geffen)
Elf Power - In a Cave (Rykodisc)
Thee Exciters - Spending Cash, Talking Trash [import] (Pickled Egg)
Firewater - The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
Tim Fite - Fair Ain't Fair (Anti)
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant [EP] (Sub Pop)
Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
Foals - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Robert Forster (Go-Betweens) - The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
Nik Freitas - Sun Down (Team Love)
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight (FatCat)
Pepi Ginsberg - Red (Park The Van)
The Gossip - Live in Liverpool [CD/DVD] (Columbia)
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (Darla)
Hayden - In Field & Town (Fat Possum)
J. Spaceman/Sun City Girls - Mister Lonely: Music From a Film by Harmony Korine (Drag City)
The Jealous Girlfriends - The Jealous Girlfriends (Last Gang)
Joy Division - The Best of Joy Division (Rhino)
Simon Joyner - Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll (Team Love)
The Kooks - Konk (Astralwerks)
Langhorne Slim - Langhorne Slim (Kemado)
The Last Shadow Puppets (Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys) - Age of the Understatement (Domino)
The Long Blondes - Couples (Rough Trade)
Make Believe - Going to the Bone Church (Ltd Edition LP + Digital) (Flameshovel)
Man Man - Rabbit Habits (Anti)
Maybe It's Reno - Maybe It's Reno (TeenBeat)
M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Astralwerks)
Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Live (Kill Rock Stars)
Mt. Wilson Repeater (Jim Putnam of Radar Bros.) - Mt. Wilson Repeater (Eastern Fiction)
Neva Dinova - You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)
The New Frontiers - Mending (Militia Group)
Night Marchers - See You In Magic (Swami/ Vagrant)
No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)
The Occasional Keepers - True North [import] (LTM)
Pattern is Movement - All Toghether (Hometapes)
The Plastic Constellations - We Appreciate You (Frenchkiss)
Ponies in the Surf - See You Happy (Darla)
Portishead - Third (Island)
R.E.M. - Accelerate (Warner Bros.)
Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash; Stink; Hootenany; Let It Be [Deluxe Eds.] (Rhino)
Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild (Vapor)
Robyn - Robyn {US release} (Interscope)
Roommate - We Were Enchanted (Plug Research)
Russian Circles - Station (Suicide Squeeze)
Serena-Maneesh - SM Backwards (Smalltown Supersound)
Shy Child - Noise Won't Stop (Kill Rock Stars)
65daysofstatic - The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties (Monotreme)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing (Polyvinyl)
South - You Are Here (Bluhammock)
Spoon - Don't You Evah [CD single] (Merge)
Strategy - Music for Lamping (Audio Dregs)
Sun Kil Moon - April (Caldo Verde)
Richard Swift - Richard Swift as Onasis [2 EPs] (Secretly Canadian)
Tall Firs - Too Old to Die Young (Ecstatic Peace)
Tapes 'n Tapes - Walk It Off (XL)
Tickley Feather - Tickley Feather (Paw Tracks)
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek)
Winston Tong - In a Manner of Speaking (Best Of) [import] (LTM)
Various Artists - A Mind Expansion Compilation 2 [2CDs] (Mind Expansion)
Various Artists - Moving Soundtracks [import] (LTM)
Yellow6 - When the Leaves Fall Like Snow [2CDs] [import] (Make Mine Music)
Thalia Zedek - Liars and Prayers (Thrill Jockey)

Electronic/Dance — Top
Ellen Allien - Boogybytes, Vol. 4 (mix CD) (BPitch Control)
Apparat - Things to Be Frickled: Parts & Remixes (Shitkatapult)
The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow [import] (Soma)
Chin Chin - Chin Chin (Def Jux)
The Cinematic Orchestra - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Domino)
Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp)
Robert Hood - Fabric 39 (Fabric)
Jamie Lidell - Jim (Warp)
Eliot Lipp - The Outside (Mush)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune (Metropolis)
Moby - Last Night (Mute)
Various Artists - Ambient Not Not Ambient (Audio Dregs)

Hip Hop — Top
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies (Anti)
Del the Funky Homosapien - The 11th Hour (Def Jux)
Devin the Dude - Smoke Sessions, Vol. 1 (Starz)
Dino-5 - Baby Loves Hip Hop Presents Dino-5 (Baby Loves Music)
Dizzee Rascal - Maths+English (US release) (Def Jux)
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (Downtown)
Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto (Stones Throw)
Eric Lau - New Territories (Ubiquity)
Lyrics Born - Everywhere At Once (Anti)
The Roots - Rising Down (Def Jam)
Why? - Alopecia (Anticon)

Metal — Top
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare (Nuclear Blast)
Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie (Nuclear Blast)
Boris - Smile (Southern Lord)
Brown Jenkins - Angel Eyes (Moribund)
The Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted (Roadrunner)
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk (Fontana)
Death Angel - Killing Season (Nuclear Blast)
Desaster - Satan's Soldiers Syndicate (Metal Blade)
Dismember - Dismember (Regain)
Iced Earth - (2CD reissues--8 different titles) (Century Media)
Impaled Nazarene - Manifest (Season of Mist)
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose (Koch)
Indian - Slights and Abuse/The Sycophant (Seventh Rule)
Jucifer - L'Autruchuemue (Relapse)
Kamelot - Ghost Opera--The Second Coming (SPV)
Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas (Nuclear Blast)
Kreator - At the Puls of Kapitulation [CD/DVD] (SPV)
Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master (Southern Lord)
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Moribund)
Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice (reissue) (Southern Lord)
Nadja - Desire in Uneasiness (Crucial Blast)
Nadja - Skin Turns to Glass (The End)
Origin - Antethesis (Relapse)
Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction (Metal Blade)
The Sword - Gods of the Earth (Kemado)
Testament - The Formation of Damnation (Nuclear Blast)
Torche - Meanderthal (HydraHead)
Walls of Jericho - Redemption EP (Trustkill)

Punk — Top
Anti-Flag - The Bright Lights of America (RCA)
Burden of a Day - Blessed Be Our Ever After (Rise)
Crash Romeo - Gave Me the Clap (Trustkill)
Dead and Divine - The Fanciful (Rise)
Flogging Molly - Float (SideOneDummy)
Four Letter Lie - What a Terrible Thing To Say (Victory)
Good Riddance - Remain In Memory-The Final Show (live) (Fat Wreck Chords)
Hot Water Music - 'Til the Wheels Fall Off (No Idea)
Kingston Falls - Armada On Mercury (Facedown)
The Loved Ones - Build and Burn (Fat Wreck Chords)
The Matches - A Band In Hope (Epitaph)
Monotonix - Body Language [EP] (Drag City)
No Use For a Name - The Feel Good Record of the Year (Fat Wreck Chords)
Our Last Night - The Ghosts Among Us (Epitaph)
Panic At the Disco - Pretty. Odd (Decaydance)
Poi Dog Pondering - 7 (Platetectonic)
Secret Lives! of the Freemasons - Weekend Warriors (Victory)
A Thousand Times Repent - Virtue Has Few Friends (Tribunal)
Time Again - Darker Days (Epitaph)
Various Artists - Take Action! Vol. 7 (Hopeless/Sub City)

Upcoming Releases

May 20— Top
Doleful Lions - 7 (Parasol)
The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind (Dead Oceans)
Free Kitten - Inherit (Ecstatic Peace)
French Kicks - Swimming (Vagrant)
Idle Tigers - The Spirit Salon (Le Grand Magistery)
Islands - Arm's Way (Anti)
Isol / Zypce - Sima (Darla)
Joan of Arc - Boo Human (Polyvinyl)
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)
Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)
Pas/Cal - I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura (Le Grand Magistery)
Various Artists - A Factory Night (Once Again) 15.12.2007 [DVD] [import] (LTM)
The Wedding Present - El Rey (Manifest)
Windsor for the Derby - How We Lost (Secretly Canadian)

May 27— Top
Ellen Allien - SOOL (Bpitch Control)
Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia (Astralwerks)

June 3— Top
The Accidental - There Were Wolves (Thrill Jockey)
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood (Sub Pop)
Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie (US release) (Dovecote)
Ladytron - Velocifero (Nettwerk)
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go To (Smalltown Supersound)
Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers (SuperEgo)
Minus The Bear - They Make Beer Commercials Like This (Reissue) (Suicide Squeeze)
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (Domino)
Opeth - Watershed (Roadrunner)
Robert Pollard - Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (Guided By Voices)
Shearwater - Rook (Matador)
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E (Fontana)

June 10— Top
Bound Stems - The Family Afloat (Flameshovel)
California Oranges - Imperial Hearts (Darla)
Joan as Police Woman - To Survive (Cheap Lullaby)
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (ATO)
Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha (Astralwerks)
U2 - Boy; October: Deluxe Editions [2CDs] (Island)
Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married but I've Got Feelings Too (Zoe)

June 17— Top
Coldplay - Viva la Vida (Capitol)
Love As Laughter - Holy (Glacial Pace)
My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth (Athsmatic Kitty)
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
Tilly and the Wall - O (Team Love)
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue: Legacy Edition [2CDs] (Caribou)
Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive (Sub Pop)

June 24— Top
Doves - TBD (Astralwerks)
Alejandro Escovedo - TBD (Manhattan)
The Saturday Knights - Mingle (Light in the Attic)
U2 - War; Under a Blood Red Sky: Deluxe Editions (Island)
The Watson Twins - Fire Songs (Vanguard)

July 1— Top
Earlimart - Hymn & Her (Majordomo)

July 8— Top
The Melvins - Nude With Boots (Ipecac)

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