Hermione Hoby 

The Puppini Sisters: Hollywood – review

For all their style, pop throwbacks the Puppini Sisters prove annoying on this album of standards, writes Hermione Hoby
  
  


Neither sororal nor from the 40s, the Puppini Sisters are a London-based trio who sing kitschy, close harmony covers. They may not have particularly robust or characterful voices, but the public's appetite for all things retro has got them to this, their fourth album. Stylish, rather than substantial, it's filled with busy arrangements of standards such as "I Got Rhythm" and "Moon River", which, for the most part, are irritatingly light. Mannered perkiness reaches its nadir on "Good Morning" - its fussy tempo changes, cuckoo clocks and spoken "good morning"s will have you wrenching the duvet over your head and groaning.

 

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