Every Tuesday, Hypeful teams up with Salad Days Music to pick and preview the week’s best new album releases. Bend an ear to this week’s choicest selections after the jump!

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Just received a tip from a fairly reliable source that the upcoming Flaming Lips album will be entitled Embryonic. There’s no release date set, but the same source says the band is hoping to have it out sometime in the last half of 2009. In the meantime, here’s a preview of what fans may expect on the new LP.

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The Flaming Lips - “Anything You Say Now I Believe You”

Sufjan Stevens posted an essay on Asthmatic Kitty’s blog earlier today about his unique name and his songwriting process in college, which included penning a song to his “imaginary confident” Sofia Coppola. It may not exactly be a new track, but you’ll probably be more than happy to take a walk down memory lane with Soof courtesy of this old demo.

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Sufjan Stevens - “Sofia’s Song”

Last night My Bloody Valentine played the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas. For those familiar with MBV, you were there, you know what happened, and you’ve might have seen it before, even though it’s been years. For those of you who aren’t, you’ve heard the name, you’ve probably heard a few songs pop on your Modest Mouse channel on Pandora, and you know they were the first “shoegazer” band, and you respect them for what they have been able to do for their genre of indie music. I fit in the second category.

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Brooklyn’s Matt & Kim strip down in New York City’s Time Square in the new video for “Lessons Learned.” Both the nudity and the reactions of the tourists are totally authentic and, natch, very entertaining.

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Matt & Kim - “Lessons Learned”

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