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It’s a huge week for new releases, lead by the long-awaited Chinese Democracy and Kanye West’s genre-bending 808s & Heartbreak. Rolling Stone’s Jody Rosen calls 808s a “fascinating” experiment. “With Kanye largely abandoning rapping in favor of digitally altered crooning, his fourth album represents a cultural high-water mark for Auto-Tune, that now ubiquitous pitch-correction technology. But Auto-Tune isn’t totally to blame for 808s & Heartbreak. A bold, fascinating, foolhardy, occasionally unlistenable Kanye West record was inevitable, with or without the cyborg-soul software.” Click below for the full review, as well as reviews of new albums from Guns N’ Roses, the Killers, Ludacris, Scott Weiland, the Rapture, Rivers Cuomo, Los Campesinos and the Fireman, as well as reissues from Death Cab for Cutie and Neil Young.

• Album Review: Kanye West, 808s & Heartbreak

• Album Review: Guns N’ Roses, Chinese Democracy

• Album Review: Scott Weiland, Happy In Galoshes

• Album Review: The Killers, Day & Age

• Album Review: Rivers Cuomo, Alone II: The Home Recordings

• Album Review: The Fireman, Electric Arguments

• Album Review: Los Campesinos!, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

• Album Review: Ludacris, Theatre of the Mind

• Album Review: The Rapture, The K7 Tapes

• Album Review: Death Cab for Cutie, Something About Airplanes (Deluxe Edition)

• Album Review: R.E.M., Murmur (Deluxe Edition)

• Album Review: Neil Young, Live at Canterbury House, 1968