Album Sweep: May 17, 2014 - Part Two...

I'm back with the second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their first appearance on Billboard magazine's official Top 200 Albums sales chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy them plus some of the artists' other work...

Coming in at #44 is Las Vegas rock band The Cab with their EP Lock Me Up. It's the highest they've been so far...

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Metal "supergroup" Devil You Know, featuring Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones (not the 80s new waver), drummer John Sankey of Devolved, and guitarist Francesco Artusato debut at #45 with Beauty Of Destruction...

Christian rap act Propaganda (not to be confused with the iconic German electro-pop band) lands at #55 with Crimson Cord...

Another religious hip-hop group, Social Club, rises to #59 with Misfits 2...

Chris Robinson, formerly of the Black Crowes, sees his band the Chris Robinson Brotherhood have their highest debut yet at #61 with their third album Phosphorescent Harvest...

Indie-rock band Wye Oak's fourth album Shriek enters the list at #67. It's their first in the top half of the chart...

New York rapper Styles P, formerly a third of the LOX, returns at #74 with his seventh effort The Phantom and the Ghost. His debut set A Gangster And A Gentleman went to #6 in 2002...

Christian metal band Red are back at #75 with the remix EP Release The Panic: Recalibrated. The original album went to #7 last year. while their 2011 set Until We Have Faces climbed to #2...

DJ and producer Jeff Montalvo, who records under the moniker Seven Lions, debuts at #76 with his EP Worlds Apart...

Nashville-based post-hardcore act Framing Hanley arrive at #79 with their third album The Sum Of Who We Are. Their last, A Promise To Burn, peaked at #57 in 2010...

Eclectic rock band Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers slide in at #100 with The Independent. It's their first to reach the top half of the Top 200...


Rapper Bas is in at #103 with Last Winter....

Progressive bluegrass-rock band the String Cheese Incident, from Boulder, Colorado, returns at #123 with A Song In My Head, their first album in nine years, and the highest rank they've ever had so far...

Post Grunge band Saliva are back at #158 with Rise Up, their ninth studio album. Back in the naughties they took three consecutive albums to the top-20, with both Back Into Your System and Blood Stained Love Story reaching #19...

Avant-garde/folk duo The Ghost of A Saber Tooth Tiger, featuring Sean Lennon (yes, that Sean Lennon) comes in at #182 with Midnight Sun.

That's all for the second half of the new crop... out of these fifteen the four I would recommend first are the Wye Oak, String Cheese Incident, Seven Lions, and Saliva albums...