Album Sweep: September 27, 2014 - Part Two...

The second half of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their first appearance on the Top 200 Albums chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets when possible as well as some of the artists' other big work. Support the talent!

Karen O of the indie-rock group Yeah Yeah Yeahs released her first solo album, Crush Songs, which is in at #44. Her band's most recent album, Mosquito, was their first top-10 effort at #5 last year...

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Two concert releases from the Grateful Dead turn up on the chart this week; first at #46 is the 23-CD set Spring 1990 (The Other One), the second recap of their tour of that year. One of the shows on that set gets a 3-CD release of its own, and Wake Up To Find Out: Nassau Colisseum: 3/29/1990, moves in at #51....


Americana artist Justin Townes Earle returns at #56 with his sixth album Single Mothers. His fourth, Harlem River Blues, was his first to make the Top 200 and highest rank as yet at #47 in 2010...

Post-hardcore act Emarosa comes in at #61 with its third album and first with new lead singer Bradley Scott Walden, Versus. It's the act's best showing yet...

The Starbucks exclusive Opus Collection from Linda Ronstadt arrives at #65. It's her eighth compilation to make the chart; back in 1976 her first Greatest Hits album made it to #6...

Another archival concert album makes the chart as Queen enters at #66 with Live At The Rainbow '74 - Sold Out. It's their third charting live album; in 1979 their Live Killers peaked at #16...

Indie-rock band Delta Spirit lands their first time in the top half of the chart with their fourth full-length record Into The Wide at #70....

Heffron Drive, a dance-pop duo named for the street they both lived on, debuts at #84 with their first album Happy Mistakes...

Britpop act the Kooks are back at #85 with their fourth album Listen. Their second set Konk stopped one notch short of the top-40 at #41 in 2008...

Puerto Rican Reggaeton duo Plan B return at #89 with their first in four years, Love & Sex.

Jazz pianist Billy Childs enters at #101 with Map To The Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro...

Nashville-based Americana act Judah & The Lion come in at #102 with their second EP Kids These Days...

Canadian rapper P Reign says hello at #119 with his Dear America EP...

Progressive bluegrass band Greensky Bluegrass move in at #127 with If Sorrows Swim, their first to make the big chart...

Husband-and-wife lo-fi duo Tennis are in at #189 with their third studio album Ritual In Repeat. Their first, Cape Dory, went to #135 in 2011...



The final new entry on the chart at the #200 position is Lost In Alphaville, the first album from the Rentals in 15 years.

That's all for the second half of the new bunch. Out of these seventeen the four I would choose first are the Kooks, Delta Spirit, Rentals, and Justin Townes Earle sets...