PC Music Volume 2
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| PC Music Volume 2 | ||||
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| Compilation album by various artists | ||||
| Released | 18 November 2016 | |||
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| Length | 38:08 | |||
| Label | PC Music | |||
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PC Music Volume 2 is the second compilation album by British record label PC Music, released on 18 November 2016.
The compilation received mostly positive reviews from critics, with most critics praising its expansion on the label's sound and catchy songs, deeming it an improvement over the first volume, though some found it monotonous and repetitive.
Songs
Described as an electropop, synth-pop, and "house-fueled" album, PC Music Volume 2 features the group's trademark "marriage of pop hooks, rubbery synths, and beguiling female vocals," as well as "a mix of styles appropriated from both the dance underground and Top 40".[1][2][3][4] Many of the songs feature an "allergy" to the polyrhythms typical in dance music, like on "Super Natural" "where beats, hand claps, and screamingly dense Eurodance keyboards are all pulsing at you as one".[5]
The opener "Fade Away" has been described as "immensely satisfying trance-pop".[4]
"Super Natural" features Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, a choice that was noted for breaking the mould in comparison to the "often metallicized" and manipulated vocals usually present on PC Music songs.[1]
GFOTY's song "Poison" introduced nu-rave and industrial elements to the label's sound.[2]
"A New Family" by Felicita features "horror-film whispers emerging from underneath the sort of crunchy torrent of sound favored by so-called post-club producers."[3]
Hannah Diamond's "Hi" was praised for its "restrained" sound and proving "that PC Music wheelhouse is far larger than just chrome-painted dance pop."[1]
