This week: the much-hyped Black Kids' debut full-length, the second from L.A.'s Bodies of Water, and a five-song EP from One Day as a Lion, the new project from former Rage Against the Machine frontmant Zach De La Rocha and former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore.
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¡Forward, Russia!: Life Processes (Mute U.S.)
Almighty: Original S.I.N. (Babygrande)
The Avett Brothers: Second Gleam (Ramseur)
Benji Hughes: Love Extreme (New West)
Biffy Clyro: Singles 2001-2005 (Beggars Banquet UK)
Big Pokey: Hurricane Sensei (Koch)
Birdy Nam Nam: XLR8R (St2 Music Brasil)
Black Kids: Partie Traumatic (Red Ink)
Black Wall Street: Welcome to Wall Street: Let the Hazing Begin (Trust Family)
Bodies of Water: Certain Feeling (Secretly Canadian)
Brooklyn Academy: Bored of Education (Gold Dust Media)
Cappadonna: Cappatilize Project
D.I.T.C.: Unreleased Production 1994 Dianogah: QHNNNL (Southern)
Doap Nixon: Sour Diesel (Babygrande)
Faun Fables: Table Forgotten (Drag City)
Various Artists: First Chapters (XL)
Fucked Up: Year of the Pig (Matador)
Gentleman Auction House: Alphabet Graveyard (Emergency Umbrella)
Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh: Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh (Drag City)
Hell Rell: Black Mask and Gloves (Babygrande)
High Places: 03/07 - 09/07 (Thrill Jockey)
Julie Doiron: Loneliest in the Morning (Jagjaguwar)
Lackthereof: Your Anchor (Barsuk)
Loved: Everything, Anything, Nothing (Temporary Residence)
Mars: Mars LP (No More)
Men Without Pants: Men Without Pants (Expansion Team)
Miley Cyrus: Breakout (Disney)
Nico Muhly: Mothertongue (Brassland)
Nine Inch Nails: Slip [CD/DVD] (The Null Corporation)
One Day as a Lion: One Day as a Lion (Anti)
Pas/Cal: I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura (Le Grand Magistery)
Pat Travers: Stick with What You Know: Live in Europe (Mega Force)
Patti Smith: Original Album Classics (Sony/BMG)
Paul Weller: 22 Dreams (Yep Roc)
The Rumble Strips: Girls and Weather (Gigantic)
The Scenic: Find Yourself Here (Victory)
The Shys: You'll Never Understand This Band the Way That (Aero)
Sky Eats Airplane: Sky Eats Airplane (Equal Vision)
Trae: Against Everything (Oarfin)
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I want to hear that One Day as a Lion EP.