Sputnikmusic News Wk 05.19.2017

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 19, 2017.  Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.  As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.

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–Featured Release: Linkin Park: “One More Light”–

Genre: Pop // Label: Warner Bros.

Background:

If you ever – whilst wandering the halls of your middle school in 2000, blasting “Papercut” into one of your earbuds – wondered what Linkin Park would sound like in the year 2017, you would have likely envisioned every scenario except what we’re actually presented with here.  A transition away from nu-metal and into straightforward rock?  Seems plausible.  Electronic experimentation?  Sure, why not.  Melodic pop…Ehh what?  Linkin Park are using their seventh full-length LP to explore the boundaries of their pop abilities, and regardless of the fact that this will in all likelihood be really good or really bad – with little wiggle room in between – One More Light is sure to be the talk of most musical circles this week for better or worse.  It’s entirely possible that the members of Linkin Park resurrect their stagnant musical careers with this 180 degree departure, but it had better be damned good.  Otherwise, it will be all too easy for them to plummet from stagnant to the laughingstock of modern rock.   The album drops Friday – listen to the lead single “Heavy” below if you haven’t already.

Listen to Linkin Park’s single fetauring Kiiara, “Heavy”:

 

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 – Full List of Releases: May 19, 2017 –

 

!!!: Shake the Shudder
Genre: Indie-Rock/Post-Punk // Label: Warp

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3Teeth: shutdown.exe
Genre: Industrial // Label: OMF

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Alex G: Rocket
Genre: Indie-Pop/Rock // Label: Domino

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Aldous Harding: Party
Genre: Indie Folk/Singer-Songwriter // Label: 4AD

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Beastmaker: Inside The Skull
Genre: Doom Metal // Label: Rise Above

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Below: Upon A Pale Horse
Genre: Doom Metal // Label: Metal Blade

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Biters: The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
Genre: Alternative/Hard Rock// Label: Earache

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Blink-182: California [Deluxe Release]
Genre: Pop-Punk // Label: Viking Wizard Eyes

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Chris Bathgate: Dizzy Seas
Genre: Folk/Alt-Rock // Label: Quite Scientific Records

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Coldcut x On-U Sound: Outside the Echo Chamber
Genre: Dance/Electronic // Label: Ahead of Our Time

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Daniel Romano: Modern Pressure
Genre: Indie-Rock/Lo-Fi// Label: New West Records

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Demen: Nektyr
Genre: Alternative Rock // Label: kranky

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Do Make Say Think: Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Genre: Post-Rock/Ambient // Label: Constellation

Stream Stubborn Persistent Illusions here.

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Dragonforce: Reaching Into Infinity
Genre: Power Metal // Label: Metal Blade

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Erasure: World Be Gone
Genre: Pop/Electronic // Label: MUTE

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Ex People: Birds
Genre: Rock // Label: New Heavy Sounds

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Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G.: The King & I
Genre: R&B // Label: Rhino

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Heather Trost: Agistri
Genre: Alternative Rock/Pop// Label: LM Dupli-cation

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Hell Or Highwater: Vista
Genre: Hard Rock/Metal // Label: Spinefarm

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Jade Jackson: Gilded
Genre: Alternative Rock // Label: Anti/Epitaph

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Jane Weaver: Modern Kosmology
Genre: Indie-Pop/Electronic // Label: Fire Records

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Jlin: Black Origami
Genre: Hip-Hop/Electronic/House // Label: Planet Mu

Stream Black Origami here.

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Land of Talk: Life After Youth
Genre: Indie-Rock // Label: Saddle Creek

Stream Life After Youth here.

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Linkin Park: One More Light
Genre: POP LOL // Label: Warner Bros.

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Lord RAJA: Amadeus EP
Genre: Alt-Rock/Electronic // Label: Ghostly International

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Loss: Horizonless
Genre: Doom/Death Metal // Label: Profound Lore

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Mastercastle: Wine Of Heaven
Genre: Power Metal // Label: Scarlet Records

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Miss May I: Shadows Inside
Genre: Metalcore/Death Metal // Label: SHARPTONE

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The Mountain Goats: Goths
Genre: Indie-Folk // Label: Merge Records

Stream Goths here.

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The Night Flight Orchestra: Amber Galactic
Genre: Hard Rock // Label: Nuclear Blast

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Oceano: Revelation
Genre: Death Metal/Grind // Label: Sumerian Records

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Papa Roach: Crooked Teeth
Genre: Rock // Label: Eleven Seven Music

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Pokey LaFarge: Manic Revelations
Genre: Folk/Blues/Country // Label: New Rounder

Stream Manic Revelations here.

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The Radiophonic Workshop: Burials in Several Earths
Genre: Electronica // Label: Room 13

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Rascal Flatts: Back To Us
Genre: Country/Pop // Label: Big Machine Records

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Roger Waters: Is This The Life We Really Want?
Genre: Folk/Pop/Progressive // Label: Columbia

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Sam Amidon: The Following Mountain
Genre: Folk // Label: Nonesuch

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She-Devils: She-Devils
Genre: Alt-Rock/Pop // Label: Secretly Canadian

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Snoop Dogg: Neva Left
Genre: Hip-Hop/Funk/R&B // Label: Doggystyle Records/EMPIRE

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T.RAUMSCHMIERE: Heimat
Genre: Electronic/Techno // Label: Kompakt

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Tigers Jaw: Spin
Genre: Pop-Punk/Emo // Label: Black Cement Records

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Wavves: You’re Welcome
Genre: Lo-fi Punk/Psychedelic // Label: Ghost Ramp

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