It got to a point after like a year of the first record being out, where we said, “Okay, we’ve got a bunch of songs in various stages of completion, so let’s pick the best ten, and start working on them.” Some Things Never Stay the Same is the second full-length studio album by American folk rock duo Heidecker & Wood, including comedian Tim Heidecker and singer-songwriter Davin Wood.

[2] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Heather Phares writing that "Some Things Never Stay the Same shows the duo has more mileage in its Yacht Rock sendups" than the novelty of 2011 debut Starting from Nowhere, resulting in "a classic second album: it's not as consistent as Starting from Nowhere, but its highlights suggest Heidecker & Wood will deliver even more convincing and subtly funny songs next time".

[4] In The Los Angeles Times, Randall Roberts called this genre-mixing collection "eleven songs about the thrill of drugs, the challenges of a life of crime and the dangers of weather patterns, the work resonates for a variety of reasons" and saved his only critique for Aimee Mann's backing vocals.

[7] Willcoma of Tiny Mix Tapes gave this release a 3.5 out of 5, characterizing it as feeling "like a series of montages for fuzzy, opaque 70s and 80s dramadies one would watch in the throes of a cold while home from school".

[8] Under the Radar's Austin Trunick scored this work a 5.5 out of 10 and compared it to Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, with music that is authentic to the yacht rock period and comedy lyrics that are "awkwardly earnest and remarkably mundane" that makes for "surprisingly catchy" songs.