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

Welcome back to part two of this week's "album sweep" checking out the records making their debut on this week's Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. You can see part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything you likey.

Debuting at #60 is this week's requisite "melodic death metal" content, this time by Swedish band Soilwork with Living Infinite. It's their third to make the US chart, and most successful so far.

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Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux comes in at #62 with her latest, The Blue Room. Her 2006 album Half The Perfect World reached the top-40 on the albums chart...

Alt-country heroes Son Volt are back at #67 with their seventh studio album Honky Tonk. Their last set in 2009, American Central Dust, tied their highest rank so far at #44...

Lo-fi musician Youth Lagoon (real name Trevor Powers) debuts at #76 with Wondrous Bughouse, his second record.

Christian hip-hop group W.L.A.K. enter at #81 with their self-titled debut. I'm really liking the production on this single...

With religious music of a different tack, Bethel Music come in at #106 with Without Words...

R&B singer Marcus Canty, who came in fourth on the first season of the American version of the X Factor, has since grown a fan following even bigger on YouTube, and his latest EP This...Is Marcus Canty arrives at #114.

Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson have reformed the Replacements for a benefit CD for former bandmate Slim Dunlap, who had a stroke, and the result Songs For Slim EP enters at #119. Back in 1989, the group took Don't Tell A Soul to #57...

The last debut of the week is by the Brooklyn-based punk band the Men are at #171 with their first charting album New Moon...

That does it for part two of this week's sweep...out of these nine the three I'd go with first are the Madeleine Peyroux, Replacements, and Youth Lagoon sets....