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Leading the charge of new releases hitting shelves this week is the Black Eyed Peas’ The E.N.D., which stand for The Energy Never Dies. By now you’ve already heard the Hot 100-dominating “Boom Boom Pow,” and for good reason: As Jody Rosen writes in his three-and-a-half star review, “all hell breaks loose” on the track, that’s “an assault on the senses, and on good taste. And it’s the best thing Black Eyed Peas have ever recorded.” While Will.i.am, Fergie and the rest of the Peas don’t match the heights of “Boom Boom” on the remainder of E.N.D., the album is still packed with electro party anthems that are often numbingly dumb, but in this case, that’s a good thing.

Sonic Youth also return today with The Eternal, the band’s fantastic 16th album that earned four stars. Three decades into their career, the New York art rockers show no signs of wear or slowing down as they’ve produced an album that touches upon all phases of their career, from the long noise experiments of 1985’s Bad Moon Rising (closing track “Massage the History”) to the dizzying guitar interplay of Goo (”Malibu Gas Station”) to the pop hooks of 2002’s Murray Street (the gorgeous “Antenna”). “The irony is that The Eternal might be their most concise record ever,” Will Hermes writes in his review. “It’s also a rock & roll ass-kicker.”

Brooklyn’s the Dirty Projectors also release their fifth disc Bitte Orca, a collection of jagged riffs, distortion and fragrant folk melodies that ride curveball beats on their way to a three-star review. “It’s at once attention-deficient and micromanaged, exhilarating and aggravating,” Jon Dolan writes. The Dirty Projectors were among the most hyped acts at this year’s SXSW, and for more on the band, check out tomorrow’s Breaking here at Rock Daily.

For the rest of this week’s big releases, including a quartet of Rolling Stones’ reissues, check below:

• The Rolling Stones – Some Girls (Remastered Edition)
• The Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue (Remastered Edition)
• The Rolling Stones – Tattoo You (Remastered Edition)
• The Rolling Stones – Undercover (Remastered Edition)
• Todd Snider – The Excitement Plan
• Nanci Griffith – The Loving Kind
• Elizabeth and the Catapult – Taller Children
• The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin