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Critic's Take

caroline's caroline 2 reads like a hoard of original ideas, and the review makes clear the best songs - “Tell me I never knew that”, “When I get home” and “Two riders down” - crystallize that invention. Joe Goggins writes with infectious conviction that “Tell me I never knew that” is a must-listen, while noting the shimmering minimalism of “When I get home” and the maximalist maelstrom that makes “Two riders down” bleakly beautiful. The result is an album whose standout tracks both define and expand its new musical lane, delivering art-rock diamonds throughout.

Key Points

• The best song, “Tell me I never knew that”, stands out as a must-listen and features Caroline Polachek.
• The album's core strengths are its inventive synthesis of influences and its contrast of minimalism and maximalism.

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Critic's Take

caroline channels a bruised, electrified intimacy on caroline 2, and the best songs on the record prove it - chief among them is “Total euphoria”, which the reviewer treats as the album's apex, and the double-collab “Tell me I never knew that” with Caroline Polachek for its uncanny harmonies. The reviewer's voice is ecstatic about the opener's rising, crackling violin and distorted catharsis, while still insisting that the record trades some of that initial sprint for textured, bruising close-ups on tracks like “Two riders down” and “Song two”. Overall the best tracks stand out because they combine fringe experimentation in recording with visceral instrumental grit, even if leading with the peak leaves the rest of the album chasing momentum.

Key Points

• “Total euphoria” is best for its escalating violin, distorted catharsis, and ability to generate chills.
• The album's core strengths are inventive recording techniques and raw, electrified intimacy that foregrounds texture and live immediacy.

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Critic's Take

On caroline 2 caroline trade some of their slow-burning hush for bolder, pop-inspired songwriting, and it pays off most clearly on “Tell Me I Never Knew That” and “Two Riders Down”. Jules Robbins notes the cheeky nods to other bands and the gleaming production without loss of the band’s sentimental core, so best songs on caroline 2 are those that balance experiment and melody. “Tell Me I Never Knew That” emerges as the album’s earworm, while “Two Riders Down” preserves the predecessor’s vulnerable power. The result is a dazzling, fully fledged Caroline 2.0 that rewards both pop fans and long-time devotees.

Key Points

• The best song, “Tell Me I Never Knew That”, is the album’s earworm due to its autotune flourish and high-profile collaboration.
• The album’s core strength is balancing pop production with Caroline’s sentimental, experimental musical ethos.

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Critic's Take

In Ian Cohen’s telling, caroline's caroline 2 finds its best songs in expansive, destabilizing gestures: “Total euphoria” functions as a beguiling, implosive rock anthem and “Beautiful ending” bookends the record with the same freighted emotion. Cohen writes with keen, wide-eyed awe, noting how the band's penchant for analog improvisation and digital honing yields thrills that are both painful and triumphant. He highlights “U R UR ONLY ACHING” and “Coldplay cover” for their inventive reworkings of familiar forms, all while insisting the album refuses easy, commercial swells. The result is an album of constant destabilization that nevertheless delivers some of the best tracks on caroline 2 by trading expected crescendos for strange, satisfying implosions.

Key Points

• The best song, "Total euphoria," subverts expected crescendos into a thrilling implosion.
• The album's strengths are emotional destabilization, inventive production, and refusal to deliver predictable post-rock swells.

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Critic's Take

caroline’s caroline 2 unfolds as a grand post-rock and folk statement, where the best songs - notably “Total euphoria”, “Two riders down” and “Beautiful ending” - stitch together atmosphere and intensity. The opener “Total euphoria” lives up to its name with off-kilter, Sigur Rós-style flourishes that set the tone. “Two riders down” is the standout, an ever-intensifying avant garde folk piece that sits the band alongside Brighton contemporaries. The ethereal, melancholic closer “Beautiful ending” concludes the record with a plaintive, expansive calm that cements the album's ambitions.

Key Points

• “Two riders down” is the best song because the reviewer calls it a standout and praises its ever-intensifying avant garde folk.
• The album's core strengths are its fusion of post-rock and folk atmospheres, strong collaborations, and an expansive, melancholic scope.

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Critic's Take

On caroline 2 Nick Roseblade hears a band that finally coheres, spotlighting songs like “Tell Me I Never Knew That” and “Coldplay Cover” as the best tracks on the album. He writes with affectionate precision, noting how lead single “Tell Me I Never Knew That” benefits from Caroline Polachek’s textured, multi-tracked voice and baroque-pop gloss. The review praises opener “Total Euphoria” for setting the blender blueprint, while “Coldplay Cover” is singled out for its gliding melodies and intimate recording creak. Overall Roseblade frames caroline 2 as a stronger, risk-taking follow-up that functions as a proper debut and contains the album’s best songs.

Key Points

• The best song is “Tell Me I Never Knew That” due to Caroline Polachek’s textured vocals and baroque-pop production.
• The album’s core strengths are its cohesive sequencing, inventive harmonies, and the band’s successful move from compilation-like debut to purposeful whole.

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Critic's Take

I kept coming back to how caroline make the stitches visible on caroline 2, and that is why the best songs stand out so vividly. The review’s standout moments - “Total euphoria”, “Two riders down” and “Tell me I never knew that” - feel like patches of pure feeling sewn into a glorious, ramshackle whole. You can hear the process in songs like “When I Get Home” and “U R ONLY ACHING”, where demos and full-band eruptions sit side by side and make the songs feel alive. The record rewards repeated listens because these best tracks reveal themselves as devotional, tactile pieces that make the album less a polished object and more a celebrated act of making.

Key Points

• “Two riders down” is best for its elegiac, tactile climax and emotional gravitas.
• The album’s core strength is its visible-mending approach: handcrafted, process-revealing arrangements and intimate songwriting.

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Critic's Take

caroline makes a case for the best songs on caroline 2 by leaning into the band’s paradox of hush and swell. The reviewer lingers on tracks that balance "tumultuous drums" with "massed choral vocals," singling out moments of fractious, noisy onslaught and quieter, more euphoric passages. In that voice the review points toward songs like “Total euphoria” and “Beautiful ending” as exemplars of the album’s dramatic tension and tenderness. It reads like a close listen that privileges texture, ensemble interplay, and the album’s ability to surprise across its best tracks.

Key Points

• The best song balances the band’s quiet and swelling moments into a euphoric highlight.
• The album’s core strengths are its large-ensemble textures, choral vocals, and dynamic contrasts.

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Critic's Take

caroline's caroline 2 reads as a declaration of unity, and the reviewer's voice repeatedly returns to that idea when naming the best tracks. The review champions “Coldplay Cover” as the album's ultimate example of cohesion, praises “Tell Me I Never Knew That” as a collaboration of dreams, and singles out “Total Euphoria” for its chaotic, emotional power. The tone is admiring and emphatic, insisting the best songs on caroline 2 succeed because eight players feel and play as one, making those tracks the record's clearest high points.

Key Points

• The best song, “Coldplay Cover”, exemplifies the album's unity by retaining emotional cohesion despite experimental separation.
• The album's core strengths are its cinematic instrumentation and the eight-piece band's collective emotional focus.

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Critic's Take

caroline's caroline 2 finds its best songs in controlled ruptures rather than neat crescendos: “Total Euphoria” and “U R UR ONLY ACHING” are the clearest examples of this restless genius. Devin Birse writes in a celebratory, analytical tone, admiring how “Total Euphoria” blends droning repetition with choral vocals and how “U R UR ONLY ACHING” flits through math-rock riffs and auto-tuned emo. The record's beauty comes from its fractured collages and incidental sounds, and these tracks best show why the album answers questions about the best songs on caroline 2 through daring production choices and emotional clarity.

Key Points

• “U R UR ONLY ACHING” is the best song because it brilliantly traverses math-rock, folk-pop and auto-tuned emo with palpable emotional force.
• The album's core strengths are its fractured collage approach, use of incidental sound, and willingness to deconstruct post-rock tropes while remaining intimate.

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Critic's Take

On caroline's caroline 2 the best songs are forward enough to stick - notably “Total euphoria” and “Tell me I never knew that”. Eric Hill writes with an amused, observant eye, praising how “Total euphoria” channels a deconstructed Broken Social Scene and how “Tell me I never knew that” crystallizes the record with Polachek's voice, a nervy second single that ties stray parts together. The album rewards listeners who like their chamber experiments lively and a little off-kilter, and those two tracks show why they are the best songs on caroline 2.

Key Points

• The best song, "Total euphoria", stands out for its deconstructed Broken Social Scene energy and achieved euphoria.
• The album's core strengths are its assured, ebullient chamber experimentation, improvisational feel, and playful humour.

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Critic's Take

Nick Seip hears the album as an active experiment, and on caroline 2 the best songs - like “When I Get Home” and “Coldplay Cover” - are those that let their seams show. The writing emphasizes collision and process, noting how “When I Get Home” stitches club beats, demos and group sessions into a song that remains alive rather than finished. He lingers on “Coldplay Cover” as a mind-bending fracture of performance, and on “U R UR ONLY ACHING” for its sudden shifts from duet to cemetery-wind dissonance. The result answers searches for the best tracks on caroline 2 in the reviewer’s own, precise voice: these are songs that reveal themselves by refusing to resolve.

Key Points

• “When I Get Home” is best for embodying the album’s collage method and unresolved vitality.
• The album’s core strength is its embrace of fragmentation and process, turning incompleteness into power.

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