Do Easy

They situate their voices on a pillowy bed of experimental pop, freak folk and, best of all, the sax-enhanced exotica of the title track. [Jan 2017, p.31]

Tasseomancy's third album moves with a deceptively breezy sway. [Jan 2017, p.94]

Do Easy, the album, makes the magical mundane, and vice-versa.

Do Easy invites you into its own rarefied world, a world where things are exotic, tranquil and seductively unique and makes you want to stay there.

Though the music lulls and comforts, you get the sense that these Lightman sisters harbor a prickly thought or two.

Some of the sisters’ rippling Kate Bush worship is so high up in the ether (or vocal register) that the listener feels a little queasy when glancing down to the ground below, but this nausea is only short-lived and sporadic. Most of the album is in fact rather comfy and well thought-out, lightly jazzy in places and often soaked in reverb seemingly inherited from Dead Can Dance.

Here, twins Sari and Romy Lightman (formerly of electronic outfit Austra) translate that concept into a languid and mystical form of baroque folk pop that alternates between seducing and confounding the listener.

The details rest comfortably in the background and add only to a sense of ambience, not to a bold artistic statement.

As lovely as Do Easy frequently is, the two are often little more than a producer of their favorite records. [Jan 2017, p.115]