1. Is This the High Life? (3:46)
2. Accentuate the Positive (3:08)
3. It Ain’t What You Do (2:30)
4. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (3:18)
5. We Love to Bebop (3:14)
6. Changes (3:38)
7. Rapper’s Delight / Chandelier Mash Up (2:39)
8. Tico Tico (2:26)
9. Work It (2:53)
10. Tennessee Waltz (2:57)
11. Material Girls Medley: Bills Bills Bills / Dear Future Husband / Cabaret-Money / 
Bitch Better Have My Money / Dirty Cash (Money Talks) / Material Girl /
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend (3:57)
12. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (3:12)
13. Liar Liar (3:20)
14. Hit the Road Jack (3:06)

Best known for their close harmony vocals, The Puppini Sisters made their name 10 years ago when their first album Betcha Bottom Dollar won a Gold Disc for international sales. The trio are the 21st century’s answer to The Andrews Sisters and have performed all over the world with artists such as Michael Buble and The Real Tuesday Weld.

In a rare treat, The High Life sees original member Rosana Schura return to join fellow ‘sisters’ Marcella Puppini and Kate Mullins. The girls add their trademark jazz and swing twist to everything from The Andrew Sisters and Elvis to Missy Elliot and David Bowie, as well as some self-penned original songs.

The classically-trained trio are backed on stage by a three-piece band featuring Martin Kolarides on guitar, Henrik Jensen on double bass and Peter Ibbetson on drums, and also play a few instruments of their own with Puppini wheezing away at the accordion and Mullins on the blow-organ. --- Donna Kelly, thereviewshub.com

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1. 	“Spooky“ 	2:43
2. 	“Walk Like an Egyptian“ 	2:42
3. 	“Old Cape Cod“ 	3:32
4. 	“Soho Nights” 	4:29
5. 	“I Can’t Believe I’m Not A Millionaire” 	4:31
6. 	“It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)“ 	4:50
7. 	“Could It Be Magic“ 	3:33
8. 	“Jilted” 	5:37
9. 	“Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree“ 	2:51
10. 	“Crazy in Love“ 	3:38
11. 	“It’s Not Over (Death or The Toy Piano)” 	3:15
12. 	“And She Sang” 	4:16
13. 	“We Have All the Time in the World“

Kate Mullins - Melodica, Piano, Shouts, Toy Piano, Triangle, Vocals
Stephanie O'Brien - Soloist, Triangle, Violin, Vocals
Marcella Puppini - Accordion, Duet, Piano, Shouts, String Arrangements, Vocals
Kris Wilkinson - Viola
Jeff Williams - Trombone
David Angell - 	Violin
Monisa Angell - Viola
John Catchings - Cello
David Davidson - String Arrangements, Violin

On record you can't see the many costume changes into stunning '30s vintage dresses, or be impressed by the trio's mugging or musical chops -- Marcella Puppini plays piano and accordion and Stephanie O'Brien plays credible jazz fiddle. This leaves the vocalizing, and while the trio isn't half bad, its members are not spectacular or particularly adventurous singers. On their second album they follow the template of their first. There are a couple of standards including "It Don't Mean a Think If It Ain't Got That Swing," and contemporary numbers -- "Spooky," "Walk Like an Egyptian" -- delivered in '40s vocal trio-style arrangements. Fine as far as it goes, but the joke is wearing thin. The Puppini Sisters' salvation is clearly in their original material. All three Sisters write solid tunes; the sooner they can come up with a full album's worth of original tunes, the better their career prospects will be. Puppini's "I Can't Believe I'm Not a Millionaire" is a blues full of arch humor, and her "Jilted" sounds like it would have been a natural for Peggy Lee, a sultry, sexy tune with a strong hook and a great lyric. O'Brien contributes "Soho Nights" a jump tune with a strong vocal arrangement, a perfect evocation of the era they obviously love. Kate Mullins may be the strongest writer of the three. Her "It's Not Over (Death or the Toy Piano)" is another song in the big-band mode, but its complex melody and inventive lyric make it one of the album's strongest tracks. ---Rovi

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