Album Sweep: October 11, 2014 - Part Two...

It's time for part two of this week's extra-big "album sweep", sampling the records that are 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 along with some of the artists' other major releases. Support the talent!

Coming in at #21 is alt-country/rock icon Jeff Tweedy, whose project with son Spencer as just "Tweedy" is called Sukierae. He's previously been a part of the bands Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, the later of which he scored four consecutive top-ten albums....

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Another critics' fave, blues-rock singer and guitarist Gary Clark Jr, lands at #26 with his Live album. His first major-label album from 2012, Blak and Blu, climbed to #6...


Canadian electropop musician LIGHTS (aka Valerie Poxleitner) enters at #34 with her third full-length release, Little Machines. It's her first to make the top-40 in the US, though all three of her studio sets made the top ten in her home country..

Singer/songwriter and Instragram pin-up girl Niykee Heaton shimmies in at #38 with her Bad Intentions EP...

The Voidz, a side-project of the Strokes' leader Julian Casablancas, debut at #39 with their first album together, Tyranny. In 2009 Julian's solo project Phrazes For The Young reached #35...

"Christian metal" act Disciple ascends to #44 with their tenth studio record Attack. Only Kevin Young remains from the original lineup, but this is their highest rank to date...

British electropop veterans Erasure return at #48 with their sixteenth studio album The Violet Flame. The duo have placed two records in the American top-40 albums list, with I Say, I Say, I Say climbing to #18 in 1994...

Eclectic country duo Big & Rich enter at #51 with their fifth full-length effort Gravity. The pair had three straight top-ten albums, with Horse Of A Different Color and Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace, before John Rich turned all crazy right wing...

Neo-soul singer Luke James debuts at #54 with his self-titled first album...

Texan country act the Josh Abbott Band shuffle in at #58 with their Tuesday Night EP. Their last full-length set, Small Town Family Dream, came in at #15 in 2012...

In an odd occurrence in this new age of music marketing, the compilation doTERRA Healing Hands: When Love Has A Plan enters the chart at #63. The charity set is sold by the cosmetic manufacturer that seems like somewhere between Avon and Nutrilife, so i dunno.  So no clippo here...

Matty Mullins, a "Christian metalcore" singer that performs with the band Memphis May Fire, comes in at #66 with his self-titled solo debut. The band also released Unconditional this year, which peaked at #4...

La Maquineria Nortena, an offshoot of the long-standing Mexican act Los Rieleros Del Norte, are in at #78 with El Fenomeno....

That's it for the second helping of the new crop...out of these twelve the four I would go for first are the Erasure, LIGHTS, Tweedy, and Josh Abbott Band records...

I'll be back tomorrow with the last of the newbies...