Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 2
by Calvin Harris
  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: Aug 5, 2022
User Score
5.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 22
  3. Negative: 4 out of 22
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  1. Enzo673
    Dec 29, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Potion, Obsessed e Nothing More To São as melhores. Mas a Música Stay with me também é boa… Expand
  2. Qazasdr
    Sep 24, 2022
    4
    Sounds like I’m listening to an hour long funk song. Here’s a quick run through. New money is underwhelming and doesn’t fit 21’s style at all. Potion is okay, but Young Thug ruins it for me. Woman Of The Year is good, and everyone pulled through. Obsessed is insanely overrated. New To You is alright, but a bit slow. Ready Or Not doesn’t fit well on the album. Stay With Me is great, but whySounds like I’m listening to an hour long funk song. Here’s a quick run through. New money is underwhelming and doesn’t fit 21’s style at all. Potion is okay, but Young Thug ruins it for me. Woman Of The Year is good, and everyone pulled through. Obsessed is insanely overrated. New To You is alright, but a bit slow. Ready Or Not doesn’t fit well on the album. Stay With Me is great, but why did Calvin get Halsey on his song and she just talks? I don’t even remember Somebody Else or Nothing More To Say. Live My Best Life is the exact reason people should stop putting Snoop Dogg on songs. Lean On Me just drones on and on. Day One is a bad closer in general. The album is just kind of boring, and I wouldn’t really recommend it.… Expand
  3. dragonmike
    Aug 12, 2022
    6
    Calvin Harris is good at singles and terrible with albums. FWB vol. 2 is better than vol. 1, but still without fireworks. More funky than first and has three really really really good good tracks - "Obsessed", "New To You" and "Somebody Else". Others are completely unremarkable. It's enough only for 6/10.
  4. MetacriticOnur
    Aug 11, 2022
    6
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  5. someonewhocares
    Aug 6, 2022
    1
    Calvin Harris has become absorbed by the success of his past work, and now has created a body of work that can be seen as a money-grab. With big featuring artists and big production, the album unravels to be the same song over and over, but with various singers on each song. What makes the album more mediocre and generic is the lack of creativity and originality in its production andCalvin Harris has become absorbed by the success of his past work, and now has created a body of work that can be seen as a money-grab. With big featuring artists and big production, the album unravels to be the same song over and over, but with various singers on each song. What makes the album more mediocre and generic is the lack of creativity and originality in its production and songwriting; like it's all been done before, because it has.… Expand
  6. colbyD13
    Aug 6, 2022
    5
    not that bad, the production is great but some songs are not. I love the intro.
  7. Nadigg
    Aug 6, 2022
    10
    This is Calvin Harris at his peak!! I can literally hear the summertime being pumped out through my headphones listening to this.
  8. Cintra5
    Aug 6, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best album of the king of electropop… The instruments are the master piece, definitely genius!… Expand
  9. Aoquesth
    Aug 5, 2022
    6
    The album starts off rocky but picks itself up for Woman of the Year, Obsessed, and New to You, with Stay with Me being another highlight. The rest of the tracks just all feel the same. It's a calm album with some good songs, but so many of them fall flat because of similar sounds. I also think there's a bit too much rap for my taste, but that's more preference than criticism.
  10. All_ButTrU4
    Aug 5, 2022
    2
    Nothing really to see here beyond a Dj's attempt to re-captivate an audience that's moved on with lifeless big hitter features. What made Vol.1 interesting and fun is that it felt diverse, inventive and precise: it knew what it wanted to do . Vol.2 feels like a bad spotify playlist. This is not interesting.

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60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Clash Music
    Aug 12, 2022
    60
    The record is funky, it might sound good near some waves (the title is also a play on the .wav format for digital music files, which Harris is constantly sending to studios across the world), and the beats generally bounce happily along. It does what it says on the tin.
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  2. AllMusic
    Aug 11, 2022
    60
    Vol. 2 sounds like the album one might slap on after the Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1 party ends and everyone is ready to crash.
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  3. Beats Per Minute
    Aug 11, 2022
    43
    Detractors have long said that Harris’ music is tailor made for background summer playlists you can ignore – listening to this project, it’s hard to disagree.
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