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") and 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