THE RISE & FALL OF RUBY WOO - THE PUPPINI SISTERS
The three music school grads in this daffy London-based trio have a longer memory than their demographic peers in the Pipettes. Rather than revive the sounds of ’60s-era girl-group pop, the Puppini Sisters bring back the close-harmony ’40s-era stylings of the Andrews Sisters, precarious hairdos and all. As on their 2006 debut, “Betcha Bottom Dollar” (which featured a killer version of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”), the Puppinis mix period material with radically reworked takes on more recent pop fare, including the Bangles’ “Walk Like an Egyptian” and Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love.” The latter’s good fun, but the album’s highlight might be “Old Cape Cod,” the dreamy Patti Page hit that Groove Armada memorably sampled in “At the River.” Sound like a gimmick? It is. But it’s a good one.
