Album Sweep: February 1, 2014 - Part Two...

Well the first "album sweep" of the year to be broken in two came this week, and you can check out yesterday's part by clicking here. Here's the rest of the albums making their first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart. As before, I've included highlighted links to buy anything if possible.

Critically-heralded alt-country singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams' self-titled debut album from 1988 finally makes the chart this week courtesy of an expanded re-release and remaster, which places at #39 this week. In 2008 she made it to #9 with Little Honey....

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The winners of the fourth season of the awesome a cappella competition The Sing-Off, the country quintet of Home Free, debut at #40 with Crazy Life...

Veteran alt-dance duo The Crystal Method, from Las Vegas, return at #56 with their self-titled fifth album, their first studio set in five years. Three of those five went to the top-40, with 2001's Tweekend reaching #32 (though their debut Vegas sold a million copies without making it higher than #92)...

Country crossover duo Florida Georgia Line drive in at #63 with their iTunes Session. Their debut set Here's To The Good Times peaked at #4 in 2012...

The fourth debut of the week from an acclaimed country singer comes in at #75 as Mary-Chapin Carpenter is in with her twelfth studio set Songs From The Movie. In this release she revisits ten of her older album cuts with a sweeping orchestral arrangement and performance. In 1994 she went to #10 with Stones In The Road...

Irish indie-folk singer James Vincent McMorrow arrives at #76 with Post Tropical...

The Starbucks exclusive When Jazz Meets Guitar collection percolates in at #88. It contains songs from Wes Montgomery, Al Dimeola, Pat Metheny, and more..

Iconic post-punk band the Pixies enter at #160 with EP2, a four-song set. The band's best showing on the albums chart so far came in 1990 with Bossanova which went to #70..

Singer/songwriter Ryan Star climbs in at #183 with ANGELS + ANIMALS. He previously went to #31 with 11:59....

The final entry at #198 is Keep Doing What You're Doing by Florida's You Blew It!...

That's all for the second half of the bunch...out of these ten the three I would go for first are the Mary-Chapin Carpenter, James Vincent McMorrow, and Lucinda Williams sets...