Unreleased Death Magnetic tracks and Best Ofs from Rod Stewart and Chris Isaak rule this week’s new releases.
This week Metallica release a four-track EP of Death Magnetic outtakes titled Beyond Magnetic. Rod Stewart delivers a huge package – four CDs, 64-tracks, as Storyteller: Anthology 1964-1990 and Chris Isaak releases a Best Of.
The country keeps a-coming ahead of Tamworth with John Williamson’s news album The Big Red and Tim McGraw’s Emotional Traffic.
Swedish folkies First Aid Kit release their much-anticipated second album Lion’s Roar and Sydney bluesman Steve Smyth offers his debut Release.
Brit-poppers The Maccabees deliver their third album Given To The Wild and UK alt-rock nutters Pulled Apart By Horses drop album number two Tough Love.
Melbourne synthpop fiends Strange Talk have a self-titled debut and Odd Future project The Internet delivers the hard copy of Purple Naked Ladies.
Finally, Pitchfork-approved Ohio indie-rockers Cloud Nothings deliver their third album Attack On Memory.