On their second full-length album, the Raveonettes revisit a fantasized 1950s where a leather-clad Buddy Holly played his Stratocaster with a switchblade. But this time the Danish duo forgo the feedback and employ a hipster’s dream team of collaborators: Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker, Suicide’s synthesizer-strangler Martin Rev and the former Mrs. Wall of Sound, Ronnie Spector. The result is a surprisingly heartfelt collection, heavy on lullaby-like ballads yet still oozing with sexy noir ambiance. Band mastermind Sune Rose Wagner channels an amorous Elvis Presley for “The Heavens,” while icy blonde siren Sharin Foo trades oohs with Spector on the panoramic “Ode to L.A.” Despite the fond eye toward the past, only an ill-advised cover of “My Boyfriend’s Back,” a girl-group original, sounds anachronistic.

Download: “Seductress of Bums,” “Uncertain Times,” “Red Tan”