The Black Doves are back and the streets of London are about to get peppered with bullets once again.    

Netflix’s spies-and-assassins thriller, created and written by s Joe Barton, is back for a second season that sets Keira Knightley’s deep-cover spy Helen Webb and her best friend, freelance trigger man Sam Young (Ben Whishaw), on a potentially violent collision course.

This time it’s complicated by a lethal plot against the mysterious Black Doves themselves and a murky back story set in Cold War Berlin.

It’s all accompanied by a crate-digging soundtrack full of unexpected, mood-setting vinyl cuts, from New York crooner Billy Joel to Camden rapper Ocean Wisdom. 

Tracks by Can and Einstürzende Neubauten help set the scene for a trip back to the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Olly Murs fans will have mixed feelings about his involvement.

Here’s the track listing in full:

Count Your Blessings - Mattiel
Je Me Suis Fait Tout Petit - San Lyon
Everybody's Gotta Live - Love
She's Always a Woman - Billy Joel

I Ought To Stay Away From You - Margo Guryan
Show Me How (Album V) - Men I Trust
Bitches and Nike Shoes - Capdown
(I Don't Know Why) But I Do - Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry
Never Let Me Go - Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette
Put Your Head On My Shoulder - Paul Anka

We Almost Had A Baby - Emmy The Great
When They Fight, They Fight - Generationals
Brick or Bat - Ocean Wisdom

Opal - Four Tet Remix - BICEP, Four Tet
Perpetuum Mobile - Einstürzende Neubauten
Mi sei scoppiato dentro il cuore - Mina
Crawled Out Of The Sea (Interlude) - Laura Marling

KFC Santería - Cain Culto
People Ain't No Good - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nobody Speak - DJ Shadow, Run The Jewels
Dance with Me Tonight - Olly Murs

500 Miles - Peter, Paul & Mary
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Raye 

When is Black Doves season 2 on Netflix?

The new season lands on the streamer on November 5. 

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Where was Black Doves filmed? The key locations from season 2.