Editorial (On Second Thoughts)

There was a long period after the first album where I felt disillusioned with the machinery of the industry. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20060712/ai_n16528332

As only his second album and with the record company evidently unsure of his commercial potential, the recording budget had been cut.
http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/mothers.html

The detractors started muttering when the second, ‘difficult’ album wasn’t forthcoming. Maybe she couldn’t do it again, they hissed. Maybe she was too frightened to try.
http://www.crammed.be/zir/20/index.htm

This next record is hopefully going to be a lot more intricate and layered. We learnt so much about the power of arrangements.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003287219

She has lost her indie-ness and become an over produced monster. I loved her last album.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2006/08/joanna_newsoms. html

This LP was the second album of the Beatles which Capitol Records produced for the north-American market. It is said that especially John Lennon wasn’t too pleased with what the Americans did and one can understand his reasons.
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=11970

In retrospect, the second and final album by this Manchester postpunk band seems to point straight at singer Ian Curtis’s suicide, which happened a few months before it was released.
http://www.amazon.com/Closer-Joy-Division/dp/B000002LGN

Learning to deal with their sudden rise to fame and facing the notoriously daunting task of a second album Blindspott employed new ways of thinking and working in preparation for an album they regard as significant. http://xtramsn.co.nz/music/0,,135715816153,00.html

In contrast, the new stuff sounds gloppy and uninspired, retreads of songs they’ve already written with more layers piled on.
http://www.pmmediareview.com/archives/2006/02/the_strokes_fir.aspx