Album Sweep: June 21, 2014 - Part Two...

It's time for part two of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums sales chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy the new stuff plus some of the artists' other major albums...

Trenton, New Jersey native and veteran Christian Contemporary Music singer Carman returns at #66 with his twenty-second album No Plan B. It's his best showing except for Heart Of A Champion which went to #53 in

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Indie-rockers the Orwells debut at #69 with their first album to make the chart, Disgraceland...

Canadian experimental punk outfit Fucked Up pushes the boundaries of band names on the chart as they enter at #84 with Glass Boys. It arrives one notch below where their last album David Comes To Life peaked in 2011...

Former Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson lands at #95 with his third solo full-length album The Ceaseless Sight....


The classic grunge album Superunknown from Soundgarden got the special super deluxe reissue treatment for its 20th anniversary, and while the single-disc release re-enters the chart at #52, the expanded set which includes four CDs and a blu-ray audio disc, comes in at #97. The original was their sole chart-topping record.

"K-Pop" singer TaeYang sails in at #112 with his second solo set Rise. He was formerly a member of the band Big Bang...

Mexican band Calibre 50 drop in at #118 with Contigo....

New Yorker Laura Pergolizzi, who records under the moniker LP, enters at #132 with Forever For Now, her third studio album. She's written tracks for the likes of Rihanna and Christina Aguilera previously....

 Seminal modern rock band Echo and the Bunnymen return at #138 with Meteorites. It's the British group's twelfth studio album and first in five years, and first since 1987 to make the Top 200, when they went to #51 in 1987 with the self-titled set...

Brothers Dave and Phil Alvin, who used to be in the iconic rockabilly band the Blasters, team up again at #144 for Common Ground: Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin Play And Sing Songs of Big Bill Broonzy...

Brazilian Latin soft rock band Camila move in at #152 with Elypse, their third studio album. Their last, Dejarte De Amar, went to #62 in 2010...

Alt-soul singer Me-Shell Ndegeocello returns at #161 with Comet Come To Me, her eleventh studio effort. Back in 1996 she peaked at #63 with Peace Beyond Passion...

Modern rock veteran Peter Murphy is back at #173 with Lion, his tenth solo project. In 1989 he took his second, Deep, to #44...

Atlanta-based hip-hop trio Migos watch their mixtape No Label 2 hit the chart at #175...

Rapper and spoken word artist Sage Francis lands at #180 with Copper Gone, his fifth studio album. His third, Human The Death Dance, went to #97 in 2007...

Soul singer and reality show maven Ke Ke Wyatt moves in at #190 with her Ke Ke EP. Her debut full-length Soul Sista went to #33 back in 2001...

The final new entry of the week is the second Broadway show to put a cast album in this week (after If/Then in part one of the 'sweep'). Violet, a show originally performed in 1997, stars Sutton Foster, and she earned a nomination at last week's Tony Awards along with supporting actor Joshua Henry...

That's it for the second helping of the new crop. Out of these seventeen, the four I would recommend first are the Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Echo & The Bunnymen, Peter Murphy, and Camila records....