This week's new releases

• Ryan Adams, Ashes and Fire 
  Following a detour into heavy metal (2010's Orion), as well as a pair of records with his group The Cardinals, Ryan Adams returns with his first solo studio album under his own name in four years. Norah Jones provides piano and backing vocals, and Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) also guests on the Glyn Johns-produced country-rocker Ashes & Fire, Adams' first LP on Capitol Records (via his own label, PAX AM).
   
• Lauren Alaina, Wildflower
  
• Bella Novela, The Archeress
  
• Scott H Biram, Bad Ingredients
  
• Andrew Bird, Norman OST
   
• Bjork, Biophilia
  The Icelandic artist hasn't released a studio album since 2007's Volta, and hasn't released any album with reviews this good since 2004's Medulla. But critics are already loving Biophilia, Bjork's latest work of experimental pop, which was both partially recorded on an iPad and also released as an app for the same. (You can also find it in more conventional CD and vinyl versions.) The songs, which also incorporate new, custom-made instruments, are loosely connected by an overriding science theme.
  
• Casiokids, Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen
  
• Cream, Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2005 [Blu-ray]
  
• Crooked Fingers, Breaks in the Armor
  
• David Crosby & Graham Nash, Crosby-Nash: In Concert [DVD]
  
• Cymbals Eat Guitars, Lenses Alien
  
• Electric Six, Heartbeats and Brainwaves
   
• Evanescence, Evanescence
  It has been five full years since multiple Grammy winners Evanescence last checked in with The Open Door 61, and eight years since the breakthrough success of their septuple-platinum debut Fallen. Adding to the delay was a troubled recording process that included sessions recorded in early 2010 with producer Steve Lillywhite that had to be scrapped when the band didn't like the outcome. Ultimately, Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters) produced the tracks that are found on Evanescence, including lead single "What You Want." It's the band's first album to feature touring drummer Will Hunt, who replaces the departed Rocky Gray, while Amy Lee remains the sole original member still with the group.