Albums Sweep: August 2, 2014 - Part Two...

The second half of this week's "album sweep" is up and ready, sampling the records making their debut on Billboard magazine's official Top 200 Albums sales chart this week. You can check out the first half by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to anything you see...

The soundtrack to the Zach Braff/Kate Hudson movie Wish I Was Here comes in at #43 this week. The collection includes songs from the Shins, Cat Power, and Bon Iver, among others...

Roots-rock veteran John Hiatt returns at #47 with Terms Of My Surrender. His last studio set, Mystic Pinball, remains his sole top-40 album so far...

Punk rockers Pennywise land at #62 with Yesterdays. It's their ninth to make the top-100 on the albums chart - in 2003 they made it to #54 with From The Ashes...

Mining the Grateful Dead archive their fans still clamor for, the GarciaLive: Volume Four: March 22nd, 1978, Veteran's Hall live album from the Jerry Garcia Band enters at #74, the highest he's gotten outside the Dead...

Norah Jones' alt-country side project Puss N Boots walk in at #83 with No Fools, No Fun....

London-based electronica outfit Jungle debut at #84 with their self-titled first album....

Audra McDonald's Tony-winning turn in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill finally gets a cast album release, as it comes in at #156. Only Audra's Go Back Home album from last year has been higher, at #147...

Baltimore's Christian metalcore (yes, it's a thing) band I, The Breather move in at #158 with The Reaper, their first to make the big chart...

The final new entry of the week at #164 belongs to French deathcore band Betraying the Martyrs with Phantom, their second full-length album...

That's it for the second half of the bunch...out of these nine the three I would go for first are the Jungle, Puss N Boots, and Audra McDonald sets...