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Release Date: 02/12/2008
On record you can't see the many costume changes into stunning '30s vintage dresses, or be impressed by the trio's mugging or musical chops --
Marcella Puppini plays piano and accordion and
Stephanie O'Brien plays credible
jazz fiddle. This leaves the vocalizing, and while the trio isn't half bad, its members are not spectacular or particularly adventurous singers. On their second album they follow the template of their first. There are a couple of
standards including
"It Don't Mean a Think If It Ain't Got That Swing," and contemporary numbers --
"Spooky," "Walk Like an Egyptian" -- delivered in '40s vocal trio-style arrangements. Fine as far as it goes, but the joke is wearing thin.
The Puppini Sisters' salvation is clearly in their original material. All three
Sisters write solid tunes; the sooner they can come up with a full album's worth of original tunes, the better their career prospects will be.
Puppini's
"I Can't Believe I'm Not a Millionaire" is a
blues full of arch humor, and her
"Jilted" sounds like it would have been a natural for
Peggy Lee, a sultry, sexy tune with a strong hook and a great lyric.
O'Brien contributes
"Soho Nights" a jump tune with a strong vocal arrangement, a perfect evocation of the era they obviously love.
Kate Mullins may be the strongest writer of the three. Her
"It's Not Over (Death or the Toy Piano)" is another song in the
big-band mode, but its complex melody and inventive lyric make it one of the album's strongest tracks.
~j. poet, All Music Guide
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