Smoking in Heaven

After their charming eponymous 2009 debut, the young Durham siblings' sophomore album is another stylized exercise in nostalgia, an eclectic mix of rockabilly, blues, swing, jazz, and ska, all tinkling pianos, wiry guitars, and enthusiastic vocals. This time around, however, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are largely performing their own material rather than covers, although fundamentally the song remains the same: faithful, vintage re-creations of a sound and an era long gone. ~ Mariano Prunes