Veneno (stylized as VENENO) is the second studio album by Brazilian band Banda Uó. It was released on September 4, 2015 by Deckdisc. The album has twelve tracks, besides the hit song "Catraca", featuring Mr. Catra. The lead single is "É da Rádio," with a production inspired by The Offspring's Pretty Fly (for a White Guy).

The band's previous album, Motel, earned the attention from the internet and was very well received by critics. Mateus Carrilho said in an interview that the band's new album would have more less brega music and more pop, reaching larger audiences with radio-friendly songs. He further stated that the new album would be different from the band's previous releases.

In search of new sonorities, the band got to collaborate with different producers, including Boss in Drama, Rodrigo Gorky, Pedrowl and Bernardo Martins. The band co-wrote all of the songs: "It was a delight to do this second album, ideas bubbled up and we put everything out," Davi Sabbag said.

In its first review, Veneno was praised for its production, since it maintains the good humor that marked the debut of the band, but with a vast sweep of inspirations, mainly from what was being successful in Brazil in the 90s.

For Brazilian website It Pop, the album "demonstrates that [the band] still has a lot to explore within their influences" and "while they play with songwriting that revives the national pop, awakening in us a more determined appetite for this genre so underestimated [in Brazil] (...) they go through references to past decades, however looking forward." The website still compared the sound to artists such as Mamonas Assassinas, Bonde do Rolê and Blitz.

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