Album Sweep: April 12, 2014 - Part Two...

The second half of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the songs making the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out the first part by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy anything you see as well as some of the artists' other work...

Orange County-based indie-pop band the Colourist debut at #82 with their self-titled first full-length album. 

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Blues rock musicians Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa collaborate on their third album together, Live In Amsterdam, which becomes their biggest of the three at #87...

British trip-hop group London Grammar come in at #91 with their debut album If You Wait...

Chuck Ragan, the singer and guitarist of the punk rock band Hot Water Music, enters at #95 with his fourth folk-rock styled solo album Till Midnight...

To commemorate its 40th anniversary, Elton John's classic album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was reissued in a extra-packed "super deluxe" set, and while the original album re-enters the chart at #53, this five-disc package arrives at #99. It has a disc of remakes by other artists like the Zac Brown Band and Emeli Sande, a complete set of B-sides and alternate singles, a two-disc concert from the Hammerstein Odeon from 1973, and a DVD documentary featuring Elton and collaborator Bernie Taupin...

Canadian alt-rock band Tokyo Police Club com in at #120 with their fourth full-length effort Forcefield. In 2010 they made it to #56 with their second, Champ...

Gospel singer and television host Bobby Jones arrives at #127 with Rejoice With Me!...

As Swedish DJ/producer Avicii's True album drops to #68 this week, a remix set called True (Avicii By Avicii) comes in at #139...

Detroit-area pop/punk band Fireworks rocket up at #148 with their third full-length Oh Common Life...

The Starbucks coffee-shop exclusive She Rocks: An 80s Wave of Women Rockers roars in at #149. It has tracks from the Go-Gos, Heart, the Pretenders, and more...

The Christian movie God's Not Dead, full of D-lister's like Dean Cain and Kevin Sorbo, sees its soundtrack land at #150 on the chart. It has tracks from its star Shane Harper, Newsboys, and more

Veteran progressive rock "supergroup" Asia are back at #159 with their 14th studio album (and fourth since the reunion of all four original members) Gravitas. Their self-titled debut topped the albums chart in 1982...

On the other hand, Australian hard rock group Wolfmother only has Andrew Stockdale of its original members, but the group trudges on as the third album for the moniker, New Crown moves in at #160. Their first two albums went to the top-40, with Cosmic Egg reaching #16 in 2009...


The Walking Dead: AMC Original Soundtrack Vol. 2 EP walks in at #162. The first volume went to #54 in March of last year...

British vocal newcomer Sam Smith made a big impression with his performance on Saturday Night Live last week, and his Nirvana EP comes in at #166, no doubt pumped by just minutes of buying frenzy during the show. Next week should bring a big bump...

Another EP, Resist by metalcore band Hundredth, drops in at #167...

Liars, an experimental rock trio from Brooklyn, come in at #172 with Mess, their seventh album. It's their second to make the chart and highest peak as yet..

With the South African band Kongos jumping to #1 on the alternative singles chart with "Come With Me Now", I'm surprised that the album it comes from, Lunatic, enters at a modest #180...

The late great jazz legend Miles Davis had his first Billboard Top Albums chart placing back in 1961, and now his Miles At The Fillmore: Miles Davis 1970 - The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 comes in at #189. Out of all his releases, his Bitches Brew was his sole Top-40 album at #35 in 1970...

 The final debut of the week belongs to another jazz musician, bassist Nathan East from Philly, with his self-titled album at #193. East had played on Daft Punk's Grammy-winning Random Access Memories album..

That's all for the second part of the new crop. Out of these twenty the four I would recommend first are the Sam Smith, Kongos, London Grammar, and Hart/Bonamassa records...