Ten years ago, on Do Easy – an album made with her twin sister as Tasseomancy – Sari Lightman sang of wanting to “reinvent” herself, to “fade into folk songs”. Her solo debut isn’t a reinvention, not exactly, but it draws much more closely from that “old music”, blurring autobiography and fragments of real and imagined other lives into a set of hushed, intimate songs.
The Way I Saw You emerges from a time of transition for Lightman, amid new community and a quieter way of life with her partner and toddler on the edges of Los Angeles. In her native Toronto, she and sister Romy developed a cosmic, experimental folk sound across 20 years of shared projects: Ghost Bees, Tasseomancy, The Lightman Sisters. Their most recent release,…

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