Second Story is an album by The Hang Ups, released in 1999 on Restless Records.

[2][3] The production team of Mitch Easter and Don Dixon hadn't worked together as a dedicated production team since recording R.E.M.

[4][5] AllMusic wrote that the band "can build a whole song out of a lugubrious piano, a folky guitar and an antiquated harpsichord, the beautiful bowing of a sonorous violin, or McCartney-esque ringing pop, and make the whole thing hang together.

"[1] The Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote that the album "features a host of melodically engaging tunes from unheralded songwriter Brian Tighe.

"[6] Washington City Paper wrote that the band "juice their sound with a force they used to only imply, resulting in the most jagged, Brit-poppy music of their career.