Hello Friends... glad to see you again, Volume Two doesn’t have a song as immediately catchy as “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?” from their debut, but I think this is an album that grows stronger with each and easy listening. It is just like a time capsule containing a long-gone era of innocence, where even the saddest and "sorrow" songs convey a sense of optimism, both tonally and lyrically. “Thieves” laments a failed relationship by stating that “love like ours is terrible news,” but it is set to sunny pop music reminiscent.
If you hear slowly and deeply you will hear that Deschanel and M. Ward stray slightly from the minimalism of their debut, with complex backing vocals and swirling string sections. But the most ambitious track is the bluesy “Home.” With its myriad shifts in tempo and tone, i think this is how it would sound if Regina Spektor wrote a funny country song. About the closing out the disc is the morose “If You Can’t Sleep,” featuring hummed background vocals that recall a sunny gospel song at a funeral. Even in that song, there is a sense of hope.
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