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"Kayley Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik are Inuit style throat singers performing ancient traditional songs and eerie new compositions." The girls released an album earlier this year, and now there's a Christmas EP. Their style sounds very tough on the vocal chords, somehow it reminded me of the grunts and moans in Kraftwerk's 'Tour de France', combined with Björk-like chirps. It sounds probably odd for ears used to western pop music, but once you get into this, it's really beautiful. And eerie. And, you have to agree, you never heard this carol sung like this: