Album Sweep: October 26, 2013 - Part Two...

Welcome back to part two of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records making the Top 200 Albums chart in Billboard magazine for the first time this week. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy anything if I can..

Sacramento post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance score their highest rank as their fifth album Acceptance Speech comes in at #42....

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Veteran country/pop singer Kenny Rogers is back at #43 with You Can't Make Old Friends. He's had four top-10 albums in his long career, with his Greatest Hits set from 1980 topping the chart for him...

Brooklyn noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells place their third album Bitter Rivals at #49 on the chart. Their last, Reign Of Terror, went to #12 last year...

"Americana" music critics' rave Patty Griffin returns at #64 with Silver Bell, her eighth studio set. Her last three reached the top-40 on the albums chart, with Children Running Through reaching #34 in 2007. Silver Bell originally was recorded in 2000, but due to label wrangling was kept until now...

DJ and producer Diplo comes in at #68 with his Revolution EP....

Philly rock singer Dave Hause debuts at #81 with his second solo set Devour...

The Fratellis, an indie-rock band from Scotland, enter at #106 with their third album We Need Medicine!. The group's debut set Costello Music went to #42 in 2006..

Indie-pop group Of Montreal, who are actually "of" Athens, Georgia, arrive at #115 with Lousy With Sylvanbriar. In 2010 their False Priest album went to #34...

State Champs, a new pop/punk band from Albany, New York, debut at #132 with The Finer Things...

Iconic pop/punk band New Found Glory slip in at #133 with their Kill It Live concert album. The set has three new studio cuts on it as well. In the 'naughties' they had back to back top-5 albums, with Catalyst reaching #3 in 2004...

Indie-rock newcomers Echosmith debut at #141 with their first full-length Talking Dreams...

American Idol champ Phillip Phillips pops in at #148 with his iTunes Sessions. His debut album The World From the Side Of The Moon came in at #4 almost a year ago...

Illinois folk-rock singer/songwriter Lissie scores her first hit album on the big list as Back To Forever is in at #160...

New York-based electronica duo DARKSIDE debuts at #163 with their first, Psychic...

Vertical Underground are back at #164 with their sixth studio album and first in four years, Echoes From The Underground. They went to #40 in 1999 with their pop breakthrough Everything You Want..

The final debut of the week at #192 belongs to South African-born St. Lucia (real name Jean-Philip Grobler), with his first full-length When The Night...

That's all for the second half of the newbies...Out of these sixteen the three I would pick first are the Lissie, Of Montreal, and Echosmith albums...