Album Sweep: April 19, 2014 - Part Two...

I'm ready to roll out the second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine this week. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy the new ones as well as some of the artists' other work.

Landing at #41 is the cover album Punk Goes 90s Vol. 2, which collects versions of hit songs from the decade by the likes of Mayday Parade, Yellowcard, Falling in Reverse, and more. The first volume went to #186 in 2006...

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Another various artist set, Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne enters at #44. It has covers from Don Henley, Bonnie Raitt, and the Indigo Girls, among others...

The eighth studio album from rap duo Mobb Deep, and the first in eight years, The Infamous Mobb Deep, arrives at #49. In their heyday they had four top ten albums, with two of them reaching #3 - Murda Musik in 1999 and their last, Blood Money, in 2006...

Indie rock group Cloud Nothings, originally from Cleveland, debut at #50 with their third studio effort Here And Nowhere Else. It's their first in the top half of the chart...

The British alternative rock band Band of Skulls return at #55 with Himalayan, also their first in the top 100...

Washington DC "chill-out" duo Thievery Corporation take their eighth album Saudade to #58. Back in 2008 their went to #35 with Radio Retaliation...

Thrash metal act Austrian Death Machine, a side project from As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambesis, have their biggest album out of their three with Triple Brutal at #64. Lambesis just pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman to plan to kill his estranged wife, so what better to do than to release an album mimicing the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Rapper Doe B from Montgomery Alabama comes in at #78 with his mixtape D.O.A.T. 3 (Definition of a Trapper)...

The iTunes exclusive Working Man's Poet: A Tribute To Merle Haggard, pops in at #85. It has cover versions of Merle's best from Jason Aldean, luke Bryan, Toby Keith, and more...


The cast of Glee are back at #123 with Glee: The Music: New New York. Oh please let it end. Though two stars for including two Petula Clark songs.

Veteran blues man Robert Cray and his band are back at #128 with In My Soul. Back in 1986 he went up to #13 with Strong Persuader, the first "blues" album I ever owned...

Metalcore band Alesana enter at #138 with The Decade EP: X. Their last full-length effort, A Place Where The Sun Is Silent, peaked at #55 in 2011...

Country-rock singer/songwriter Leon Russell just turned 72, and his latest, Life Journey, arrives at #164. Back in 1972 he spent a month at #2 with Carney...


The final debut of the week belongs to rap trio PAK X EMH with the EP Highly Overdue. There's no video for them yet, but you can listen to them here...

That's it for the second half of the new bunch...out of these 14 the three I would go for first are the Thievery Corporation,  Robert Cray, and Leon Russell sets...