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Oct 24, 2011Sounding 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.
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Oct 24, 2011This album will please fans of the vintage stylings of Adele, Duffy and the late Amy Winehouse.
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Oct 24, 2011Smoking In Heaven is a great achievement, to be enjoyed again and again.
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Oct 24, 2011Fun all the way.
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Oct 24, 2011Smoking in Heaven is hugely enjoyable.
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Nov 1, 2011The music on Smoking in Heaven is simple, but these songs are also beautifully rendered with a kinetic energy missing in much of today's auto-tuned chart-topping hits.
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Oct 24, 2011They sound like they don't just have a warmth for the genres they plunder here: they know them inside out.
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Oct 24, 2011Festival 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.
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Oct 24, 2011The 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.
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Oct 24, 2011Smoking in Heaven is a still novel and mostly welcome dive into an often ignored and overlooked era.
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Oct 24, 2011They've brought touches of ska and Latin into the mix, but KD&L still don't do anything Imelda May can do better.
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Oct 24, 2011Full marks for devotion to "authenticity", but, sadly, authentic doesn't necessarily mean interesting.