Album Sweep: October 4, 2014 - Part Two...

The second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making the official Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine, is here. You can check out the first part by clicking here. As before I've included highlighted links to buy any of the new sets if possible, as well as the some of the artists' other big work...

After five studio albums with their band Good Charlotte, the Madden Brothers strike out on their own at #57 with their project Greetings From California. With GC they had three top-10 efforts with The Chronicles Of Life And Death going to #3 in 2004...

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Another alternative rock performer who left his former band, Mike Doughty of Soul For Coughing, lands at #66 with Stellar Motel. Earlier this year his Live At Ken's House release went to #130...


Texas In July, a metalcore band from the Amish country in Pennsylvania, land at #71 with their fourth album Bloodwork. It's their first to make the top half of the chart...

Indie-pop act Sir Sly from Los Angeles arrive at #76 with their first full-length release You Haunt Me...

Hawaiian Christian collective New Hope Oahu enter at #83 with Victorious. It's their second album to make the chart and highest rank yet..

The Manchester Orchestra, which is neither an orchestra or from Manchester but rather from Atlanta, Georgia, come in at #85 with their fifth album Hope. Earlier this year they had their biggest album placing with Cope at #13, and this new one is all acoustic versions of the songs from that set...

"Noise Rock" band Shellac get their first charting album with their fifth effort Dude Incredible...

Australian alt-rock act Hands Like Houses went to #37 last year with their Unimagine album; now they are back at #109 with songs from that one redone as Reimagine...

Courtesy of a new vinyl release, jam-rock veterans Phish take their 1992 release A Picture Of Nectar finally to the Top 200 at #110. In June their new album Fuego went to #7...

The gospel compilation Top 25 Praise Songs: 2015 Edition ascends to #124...

Nashville singer/songwriter Ben Rector drops in at #139 with his Live In Denver album. His last studio recording The Walking In Between went to #16 last year...

Blake Mills, who used to be an a band with the guys from Dawes, land at #158 with his second solo release Heigh Ho...

Traditional country "supergroup" The Earls Of Leicester shuffle in at #159 with their self-titled project. Put together by dobro player Jerry Douglas, this assemblage celebrates the music of Flatt & Scruggs and the like...


Unspoken, a Christian soul/pop outfit, move in at #175 with their self-titled debut...

The final new entry of the week at #194 is Florida-based metalcore band Sleepwave with Broken Compass, their first album...

That's all for the second half of the new bunch...out of these fifteen the four I would go for first are the Good Charlotte, Mike Doughty, Earls Of Leicester, and Blake Mills albums...