The Puppini Sisters Swing Out!
We come undone for just about any throwback girl group, the older the better. Veronica Lake 'dos, puffy sleeves, opera gloves, hair rolls, fake moles, overly pale faces and tightly-cinched swing skirts should be the order of the day every day, in our minds. We don't care -- we'll even take the cheesy and cliched retro girl groups. But it's even better when they're neither. So you can imagine the absolute elation we're currently experiencing over the Puppini Sisters, a
Inspired by the The Triplets of Belleville soundtrack, the three singers combined their shared love of fashion -- Marcella spent time working for punk-rock fashion design doynee Vivienne Westwood -- the glamour of old Hollywood, classic cosmetics (their latest album, The Rise & Fall of Ruby Woo is a nod to the iconic Ruby Woo lipstick shade by MAC, favored by The Cure's Robert Smith), and the Andrews Sisters (the group's name references the enormously popular WWII-era close harmony threesome), and the Puppini Sisters were born.
(Watch videos after the jump.)
Aside from their undeniably appealing Enola Gay style, we love their original compositions (check out "Jilted") and only-slightly-tongue-in-cheek swing interpretations of an array of Big Band hits and post-war classics. And when we say "post-war," we mean REALLY post-war -- everything from Blondie to the Bangles to Beyoncé. They're basically doing what Christina Aguilera did in her "Candyman" video, but doing it for realsies, with accordions and Spanish guitars. And we love it.
Check out their "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" video below, and check out more videos and songs at the Puppini Sisters' MySpace page.
