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  • Summary: The second album for the British trio of siblings continues its retro pop sounds that this time includes influences from country, blues, Latin, and ska music.
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  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
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  1. Oct 24, 2011
    90
    Sounding fifty years out of time and traversing genres without concern, it is unlike anything else you will hear this summer. And you really must hear it.
  2. Oct 24, 2011
    84
    This album will please fans of the vintage stylings of Adele, Duffy and the late Amy Winehouse.
  3. Oct 24, 2011
    80
    Smoking In Heaven is a great achievement, to be enjoyed again and again.
  4. 70
    Festival stalwarts and vintage sonics trailblazers, their no-fuss rhythm and blues has little truck with reinventing the wheel and fizzes with the simple joy of creation.
  5. Oct 24, 2011
    70
    They sound like they don't just have a warmth for the genres they plunder here: they know them inside out.
  6. Oct 24, 2011
    60
    The writing is nothing earth-shattering; in fact, it's rudimentary and formulaic almost without exception, although they still come up with a couple of winners ("I'm Coming Home"), and lots of tunes that would easily pass for understandably forgotten oldies.
  7. Oct 24, 2011
    40
    Full marks for devotion to "authenticity", but, sadly, authentic doesn't necessarily mean interesting.

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