Perennial Favorites is an album by the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers, released in 1998.
[3] AllMusic wrote: "Part of the reason [the Zippers] stand apart from the rest of the neo-swing crowd is that they don't forget that there was a bit of menace in the days of hot jazz -- it wasn't a naive, swinging party, there was some genuine hedonism as well.
"[4] Entertainment Weekly's review called the band "adept but inconsequential," writing that Katharine Whalen's "sleepy Billie Holiday cadences verge on satire.
"[6] Spin called the album "self-congratulatory, jokey, essentially heartless cartoon music masquerading as 1920s 'hot jazz'.
"[10] The Houston Press deemed it "a dozen rock-solid originals that represent the band's finest and most ambitious collection to date.