Album Sweep: September 6, 2014 - Part Two...

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

Speed-metal band Dragonforce, from London, fly in at #62 with their sixth studio album Maximum Overload. Back in 2008 they made it to #18 with Ultra Beatdown...

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Static Selektah (aka Patrick Baril), a DJ from northeast Massachussetts, drops in at #77 with #WHATGOESAROUND. His sixth effort is his first to make the top half of the chart....

Bayou legend Dr. John returns at #84 with Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit Of Satch. Inspired by jazz legend Louis Armstrong, it contains a selection of covers of songs Louis helped make famous. Back in 1973 his classic In the Right Place peaked at #24. I guar-an-tee that this will be up for a Grammy next year...

Swedish jazz-fusion act Dirty Loops make their debut at #86 with Loopified, their first effort. Besides their own compositions, the set includes covers of Avicii, Adele, and even Justin Bieber...

Pallbearer, a "doom metal" band from Little Rock, Arkansas, enter at #90 with their second set Foundations Of Burden...

Americana artist Paul Thorn lands at #92 with Too Blessed To Be Stressed (a great title). In 2010, his Pimps And Preachers peaked at #83...

The Cocktail Hour, a Starbucks coffee-house exclusive, enters at #95 this week. Beats the piss out of me who is on the CD and how to get it unless you pop into a store, since the companies' website sucks ass these days...

Christian music superstar turned 90s pop hitmaker Amy Grant is back at #110 with In Motion: The Remixes, with eleven of her track reworked for the dance club. Ten of Amy's releases have made the top-40 on the main albums chart, with her Behind The Eyes set from 1997 going the highest at #8...

The late Chuck Brown, who had the nickname "the godfather of go-go" for the Washington-DC-based genre of funk he excelled in, has a posthumous release hit the chart as Beautiful Life is in at #140. The artist, who passed in 2012 at the age of 75, had a top-40 album in 2007 with We're About The Business...

Christian alternative rock band Needtobreathe arrive at #146 with 60/50 Ocean Way: The Live Room Sessions. Earlier this year they went to #3 with their latest studio album Rivers In The Wasteland...

He Is Legend, a hard rock group from North Carolina, move in at #148 with Heavy Fruit. It's their third to reach the chart - in 2009 their last set It Hates You peaked at #126...

Eclectic outfit Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas, from Detroit, debut at #175 with Secret Evil....

Country singer Joel Crouse also makes his first appearance on the chart at #183 with Even The River Runs...

Boston rapper Slaine claims the final debut of the week at #189 with The King Of Everthing Else. He's also appeared in a couple of Ben Affleck movies...

That wraps up the second half of the bunch; out of these fourteen the four I'd go with first are the Dr. John, Jessica Hernandez, Dirty Loops, and Paul Thorn sets....