Through their 18-year career, husband-and-wife team Don and Karen Peris have trodden a path of hushed and achingly beauteous songcraft with a devastating purity at its heart. TIM’s religious beliefs are an ‘also’ rather than a ‘because’ and they conjure their swoonsome, crystalline sadness via Don’s warm, nylon-string guitar work and Karen’s killer voice (a mix of Harriet Wheeler, Natalie Merchant and Emmylou Harris). It’s joy, but not as we know it.