Album Sweep: June 15, 2013 - Part Two...

I'm ready for part two of this week's "album sweep" sampling the new records making the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything if possible...

Coming in at #74 is the restored archival record The White House Sessions, Live 1962 by Tony Bennett and jazz great Dave Brubeck. Tony had his first #1 album two years ago with Duets II....

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British progressive metal band Tesseract enters the chart at #94 with Altered State, their second full-length effort.

British alt-rock band Bastille, named for the French revolutionary landmark, debut at #104 with the EP Haunt. Besides the title track (a demo not on their album Bad Blood, the four-song set includes two of their UK hit singles...

The Northern Irish modern rock group Snow Patrol released their Greatest Hits album which is in at #113...

Veteran industrial band Skinny Puppy is back at #140 with Weapon. Only their 1996 release The Process has gone higher (#102)...

Trip-hop pioneer Tricky returns at #149 with his tenth album False Idols. His 1998 work Angels With Dirty Faces went to #85...

Italian "popera" trio Il Volo are at #160 with We Are Love: Special Edition. The original went to #100 last year (not sure why this is charting separately)..

What's a week without some 'death metal'? This time Swedish band Dark Tranquility obliges with their tenth set Construct at #171...

With a genre I've barely heard of, Savannah Georgia "sludge-metal" group Kylesa arrive at #173 with Ultraviolet...

The final debut of the week is a gathering of three jazz greats - pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Jack DeJohnette - with Somewhere at #177...(this isn't from it, but it'll give you an idea of their working together)...

That's it for the second set of ten...out of these the three I'd choose first are the Bennett/Brubeck, Snow Patrol, and Skinny Puppy sets....