Reviews of COI + COII are VERY hard to find, and I have almost nothing that relates to COII
Record Collector, September 2003 (Daryl Easlea)
Barcode eZine, February 2004
eer-music.com Jim Brenholts
The release of the 2-disc set distracted from the second disc as a standalone piece, and the whole package was completely overtaken by the simultaneous release and media attention to Crash & Burn
I recognise what you said too about the kind of small, personal blogs that Wikipedia doesn't like, but I am sharing a link to my blog anyway because I seem to be the only person I can find who has written anything about COII at all!!
https://translatedbirdsong.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/cathedral-oceans-ii/