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Tasseomancy – Ulalume

TASSEOMANCY play the Great Hall October 20. Rating: NNN


Sari and Romy Lightman used to perform as Ghost Bees but have since reinvented their spooky outsider folk sound and rebranded themselves as Tasseomancy (the art of reading tea leaves). In the meantime, they’ve been travelling the world as backing vocalists with Toronto electro-pop upstarts Austra and convinced Timber Timbre’s Taylor Kirk and Simon Trottier to collaborate with them on their relaunch album.

The sibling vocalists seem to delight in the way twins creep some people out, and naming this album after an Edgar Allan Poe poem gives you some idea of how much they like the spooky and supernatural. That mood fits Timber Timbre perfectly, but maybe a bit too well. You can’t quite shake the feeling that this is basically a Timber Timbre album with the Lightmans singing, and that’s emphasized even more when Kirk sings the lead vocal on The Darkness Of Things. It’s all quite lovely to listen to, but much of the special Lightman magic is overshadowed by the collaboration.

Top track: Up You Go, Little Smoke

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