Album Sweep: February 15, 2014 - Part Two...

Part two of this week's "album sweep" is up, sampling the records making their first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy the new stuff and the artists' other work when possible.

The Red Dragon Cartel, a band formed by former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee, debuts at #69 with their self-titled first set....

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English trance act Above & Beyond arrive at #70 with Acoustic, their fourth album. It contains a dozen stripped-down versions of their clubfillers, and turns out to be their biggest record yet...

The Lawrence Arms, a punk band from Chicago, make their first appearance on the big chart with their sixth full-length Metropole...

All-female indie-pop group Dum Dum Girls drop in at #73 with their third full-length, Too True. It's their first set to reach the top half of the albums chart...

New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem return at #82 with their rarities collection The B-Sides. Their last regular album Handwritten climbed to #3 in 2012...

British alt-rock stars You Me At Six come in at #124 with their fourth album and first to make the Top 200, Cavalier Youth. The record topped the albums chart in the UK...

Neo-soul singer Algebra Blessett is back at #149 with her second album Recovery. This is 10x better than anything on Beyonce's last set. Just sayin'...

Christian rock singer Dave Barnes enters at #169 with his eighth album Golden Days. This past holiday he went to #15 with his Christmas release A December To Remember...

The final debut of the week at #177 belongs to Mexican musical outfit Julion Alvarez Y Su Norteno Banda with Soy Lo Que Quiero: Indispensible.

That's all for the second half of the new crop...out of these nine the three I'd pick first are the Above & Beyond, Algebra Blessett, and You Me At Six records....