Album Sweep: September 7, 2013 - Part Two...

Hey folks, I'm ready for part two of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records reaching the Top 200 Albums chart in Billboard magazine this week. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything you see...

Arriving at #74 is Tennessee indie-rock group Superchunk with their 10th studio album I Hate Music...

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Hawaiian reggae band the Green surf in at #77 with their third effort, Hawaii 13. It's the top reggae album of the week...

Popping in at the halfway mark at #100 is Britpop band Travis with Where You Stand, who are revered in their homeland but in the States are probably best known for their slowed-down take on Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time". Their third album, Invisible Band, so far is their sole top-40 album going to #39 in 2001...

 Typhoon, an indie rock act from Portland, Oregon, debuts at #105 with their third regular album, White Lighter...

The Mexican Corrido music group Los Inquitos Del Norte enter at #110 with Los Psychos Del Corrido Los Psicopatas....

The winner of American Idol's season 9, Lee DeWyze, saw his post-appearance album Live It Up top out at #19 back in 2010. He's back on a new label (Vanguard) and his new album Frames arrives at #116...

Pop singer/songwriter Andrew Belle from Illinois is in at #120 with Black Bear...


Country singer Tracy Lawrence crowdfunded his latest album Headlights, Taillights, and Radios, and now he sees it jump on the chart at #124. Tracy has had five of his releases make the top-40 on the albums chart, with 2004's Strong going the highest to #17...

Atlanta metalcore outfit Woe, Is Me storms in at #133 with their American Dream EP...

Chicago-based hard rock band Soil enters at #141 with their sixth full-length album Whole. In 2004 they took Redefine to #78...

Another Mexican regional act, El Trono De Mexico, who perform in the duranguense genre, come in at #145 with Irremplazable....

William Beckett, the lead singer for the defunct alt-pop band The Academy Is..., debuts at #156 with his first solo album Genuine & Counterfeit...

Swedish "black metal" band Watain drop in at #158 with their fifth effort, The Wild Hunt...

The last debut of the week at #184 is by hardcore rockers Sworn In, with The Death Card...

That does it for the second half of the new crop...out of these fourteen the three I'd go with first are the Superchunk, Travis, and Andrew Belle sets...