Album Sweep: September 15, 2012 - Part Two...

Thanks for coming back, it's time for the second part of this week's "album sweep", where I serve up a sample of the newest records making their way on to the Top 200 Albums chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out the first part from yesterday by clicking here. And like before I've included links to buy any of the albums you like on Amazon-mp3, but hell buy music anywhere you can (especially an independent record store if you can)...

Coming in at #85 is the Georgia-based hardcore band the Chariot, with One Wing. They are another one of those hybrid group meshing blaring metal and spiritual themes...

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Dream-pop band Wild Nothing, from Virginia, debut at #113 with their sophomore full-length album, Nocturne...

Veteran New York post-punk band Swans have been going strong since 1982, and their latest album at #114, The Seer, features cameos from members of Low and Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs...

Christian rock singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson arrives at #125 with his new album Light For The Lost Boy....

Country singer Thomas Rhett's father is Rhett Akins, who placed his Somebody New album on the Top 200 chart back in 1996. Now his son does the same as his Thomas Rhett EP debuts at #133. Mind you, the fact that the elder Rhett is younger than me makes me feel really old right now...

And now for something different...Swedish death metal act Katatonia are here at #138 with Dead End Kings, their ninth studio album...

The next compilation debuts due to Amazon.com, who are offering The Greatest Classical Music Ever! 50 Best Romantic Classical Music at just 99 cents. It has selections from Carmen, Peer Gynt, and Madama Butterfly and more with musicians and singers like Maria Callas, Natasha Marsh, and Luciano Pavarotti, and it makes it to #140 this week...

Indie-pop artist Dan Deacon comes in at #147 with his latest album America. He's a great live performer, and had a viral video a few years back with his track "Drinking Out Of Cups"...

Rap duo CES Cru see their EP 13 come in at #156, they're from Kansas City and are proteges of Tech N9ne....

Art Garfunkel's double-CD retrospective The Singer enters at #179. It has six of his Hot 100 hits (omitting three others) along with five selections from his Simon and Garfunkel days...it definitely could have been better put together for that big of a collection...Art's Angel Clare album made the top-5 in 1973...

 Blues giants the Robert Cray Band had a top-20 US album with his classic 1986 album Strong Persuader, and he's still putting out great music, as his latest and sixteenth studio album Nothin' But Love debuts at #187...

Gospel singer Marvin Sapp already scored a top-10 album last year with I Win, and his previous record company cashes in on his success with a compilation of his work with the label on his first three albums, Beginnings....

And proving the world of Christian music has no filter, a CCM rock group named Big Daddy Weave get their second record on the main Top 200 albums list at #196 with Love Come To Life...

Well, that wraps it up for this half. Out of this lot, I would recommend the Robert Cray, Wild Nothing, and Dan Deacon albums the most.

Check back later on today for my "Robbed Hit" of the week. Cheers!