Album Sweep: November 1, 2014 - Part Two...

Part two of this expanded album sweep is up, sampling the records making the official Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine this week. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy anything here available, along with some of the artists' other major work....

Singer/songwriter and "out" lesbian Mary Lambert celebrates her first big album hit as her debut full-length album Heart On My Sleeve comes in at #29...

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Deathcore band the Acacia Strain nab their first top-40 album as Coma Witch enters at #31. It's their lucky seventh release...

 San Franciscan thrash metal vets Exodus return at #38 with their tenth studio album Blood In, Blood Out. It's their second top-40 album; the last was back in 1989 with Fabulous Disaster. Former member and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett makes an appearance here...

Norwegian pop/soul duo Nico & Vinz land at #45 with their first effort Black Star Elephant...

Christian metal (yes, it's a thing) band Fit For A King ascend to #49 with their third release and first to get to the top half of the big chart, Slave to Nothing...

79-year-old gospel legend Dorothy Norwood lands on the chart for the first time with An Incredible Journey at #57...

Rapper and producer DJ Quik returns at #63 with his ninth studio set The Midnight Life. Back in 1992 he took Way 2 Fonky to #10 on the Top 200..

Alternative rock band OK GO are back at #74 with Hungry Ghosts, their fourth album. Their last, Of the Blue Colour Of The Sky, went to #40...

Hard rock act Gideon are in at #77 with Calloused, their first to make the big chart...

Foxygen, an indie-rock group from California, move in at #83 with their third release, ...And Star Power. Their last, We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic, landed at #76 last year...

That's all for the second part of the new bunch...out of these eleven the three I'd get first are the Mary Lambert, Nico & Vinz, and OK GO albums...

I'll be back tomorrow with part three....