Ghost bees :Tasseomancy

Ghost bees is a twosome from Halifax, nova scotia,
comprised of twins Romy and Sari Lightman,
they started as a bigger band back in 2005
with others accompanying them on drum bass and violin etc..

they left the bigger collective sound behind
for a more delicate and elementary style,
giving more room to exercise
there lyrical fortitude,

they have a formidable ability
to make your heart swoon and your stomach
churn all at the same time, the marriage
of there beautiful harmony's and the seriousness
of there gruesome tales of wedding vampires and
elf kings stealing peoples children, is like drinking
absinthe in pineapple juice,

they have released a beautiful debut on
youth club records filled with fairytale imagery
and simple and eloquent mandolin and guitar
melodies,

most of these songs where available
on a previously released 6 track demo,
Sinai and Tasseomancy where new to this edition
but one of the tracks i was hoping to hear
rerecorded "haunting intervals" was missing
but after listening to the whole album
i found it as a bonus track at the end
of goldfish and metermaids,which was a nice
surprise, this was probably documented
on the youth club website and every thing
but i was happy to be surprised,

i cant say that one track stands out from the others
it kind of all fits together as one mouthful,
like a book or a film, not that its a concept album
or anything like that but track to track it dose
flow like a family tree of story's, these two girls
deliver songs about other peoples history as if they
had lived it themselves, they do delve into
there own history in the song tasseomancy,
which tells the tale of there great great grandmother
who practiced the art of tea leaf reading ,

i have seen ghost bees compared to joanna newsom
so many times i have even made a poster for a
ghost bees show where i was told to write
"for fans of Joanna Newsome" on it,
if anyone wants to explain this to me id love it,
it seems people like to compare female vocalist
with any other women who are doing anything offbeat,
maybe i just don't hear it though who knows,


i cant say enough good thing about these
two, this cd is a must have for any fans
of the rising folkpunk/gothfolk genera that's building
with bands like timber timbre, Laura Barrett
and bruce-peninsula,



here is some video footage i captured last year, check it