Album Sweep: February 23, 2013 - Part Two...

Hey gang, I'm back with the second half of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records making their first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and I've included links to buy anything you see at Amazon.

Hopping in at #63 is Scottish indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit, with their fourth full-length effort, Pedestrian Verse. It's their third to reach the chart, and the highest rank so far...(LOVE LOVE LOVE this video)

Sacremento "horrorcore" rapper Brotha Lynch Hung comes in at #68 with Mannibalector, his seventh album to reach the top-200 list. One of those albums, Loaded, went to #28 in 1997...(WAY WAY WAY NSFW)

...for a total 180 from that, folk-pop singer Jewel released her Greatest Hits album, and it enters the chart at #73. Every one of her non-seasonal studio albums save one made the top-10 on the albums chart (and that holdout reached #11), it's amazing how huge she was back in the day...

Lo-fi indie veterans eels come in at #74 with Wonderful, Glorious, their 15th studio album. Out of all of them only one, 2009's Hombre Loco, has peaked higher (at #43)...

British electric folk pioneer Richard Thompson returns at #75 with his latest, Electric. He has a couple of the top-500 albums in Rolling Stone's poll...

Gospel singer William Murphy debuts at #90 with God Chaser...

Christian alt-rockers Sanctus Real pop in at #112 with their sixth effort, Run. It's their fourth to reach the big chart.

Indie blues rock band Alabama Shakes lost out on the Best New Artist this year to fun, but they do score a debut at #124 with their exclusive iTunes Session EP, featuring 8 of their songs done "live"...

Singer/songwriter and granddaughter of Hank and daughter of Hank Jr, Holly Williams put in her first Top 200 Albums appearance at #146 with The Highway...

Lo-fi group the Unknown Mortal Orchestra enter at #170 with their aptly titled second album, II...

 The last debut on the top-200 is by the California hardcore punk band the Bronx (natch), and the fourth of their albums to be simply named The Bronx (Peter Gabriel-style) arrives at #173...

That covers the back end of the albums chart...out of these the three I'd pick first are the Frightened Rabbit, Richard Thompson, and eels sets.