Volume 2
in
Barnes & Noble
/
Big Helium
's
Sunday Music
series boasts another fine collection of safe, expertly played coffeehouse music that is as palatable as it is unmemorable. Pre-afternoon nap ballads from
Rosie Thomas
and
Sufjan Stevens
(
"Much Farther to Go"
),
Richard Thompson
"Persuasion"
) and
Mindy Smith
"You Just Forgot"
) are peppered between upbeat,
indie rock
diversions from the likes of
Badly Drawn Boy
"Silent Sigh"
) and spooky meditations from
Jeff Buckley
"Corpus Christi Carol"
Faultline
"Where Is My Boy"
), making this compilation the perfect non-intrusive background to a day of alphabetizing your record or book collection. ~ James Christopher Monger