A little while back, I interviewed Devery Doleman of the Twin Peaks tribute band F You Tammy, and was very excited to find out that the band would be releasing an EP before year’s end. Well, my friends, the release day is nigh, and I’m happy to report that the EP, Sycamore Trees, delivers a haunting, cinematic take on four tracks made famous (among Twin Peaks fans, anyway) by the groundbreaking series.

The EP opens, appropriately, with “Sycamore Trees,” a song that first appeared in the series finale of the original Twin Peaks. An elegant grand piano and an exquisitely controlled barrage of guitar feedback evoke the enchanting mystery Glastonbury Grove, home of the show’s iconic extra-dimensional black lodge, while Doleman’s crystal-clear vocal calls out from a dreamy haze of equal parts memory and magic. A breathy saxophone solo about halfway through the song gave me goosebumps and completely enveloped me in a fit of nostalgia for both the series and the otherworldly reality it’s always conjured.

A major part of that nostalgia rests heavily on the songs David Lynch chose for the soundtrack of the series: a blend of somewhat obscure contemporary music and equally hard to trace oldies. The result, as far as the show is concerned, is a sonic landscape for a world that could exist in a slightly different universe — or that we might recall upon waking from a dream. It’s like the world we know, just a little off-center. We kind of remember certain names and faces, but if we think too hard about it, they start to slip away. And the songs that were playing on the radio are always on the tips of our tongues but still just out of reach.

That’s the feeling I get, anyway, when I listen to F You Tammy singing “My Prayer,” a song that went to number one on the Billboard charts in 1956 when the Platters recorded the version that would turn up (eventually!) on Twin Peaks: The Return. Which is to say it was a pretty big song. Even so, I don’t recall ever hearing it on the local oldies station here in Philadelphia when I was growing up, so I daresay it’s also a forgotten song. Which, again, is part of the dreamlike, nostalgic allure not just of Twin Peaks but also the Sycamore Trees EP. It’s conjuring a thing that both was and never was. A thing, a feeling, that we can almost touch, almost put our collective finger on but can never quite look at directly.

In a way, this both “was and never was” quality demands an approach to production that can be described as timeless. We need to be able to hear any song on this collection and be convinced that we’ve heard it sometime in the past without being able to quite say when. And the recordings on what might be considered “side one” of the EP more than deliver on that count. The backing vocals and guitar on “My Prayer,” in particular, harken back to the doo-wop sound of 1950s radio without sounding like they’re trying to copy anything. There’s no technological thumbprint here, no obvious studio trickery drawing attention to the era in which the songs were recorded. It’s just music sounding like music: This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full, and descend!

The second half of the EP has a a little bit more of a dance-oriented flavor. My favorite track, in fact, is a cover of “Shadow,” originally recorded by the Chromatics, who performed the song in episode two of The Return. F You Tammy’s version builds slowly and then blossoms into a swirling, pulsing phantasmagoria of sound with a percolating beat that gradually evolves into a gallop. Gorgeous harmonies and angelic backing vocals lend depth to the song, and a subtle guitar line gives it a bit of crunch as well.

Of course, no tribute to Twin Peaks would be complete without a version of the show’s theme song, aka “Falling.” The F You Tammy version of the song is a lot of fun that’s undergirded by a steady backbeat and snappy, poppy saxophone. I can almost imagine it as the theme song for a fun talk show dedicated to Twin Peaks fandom, and if I remember correctly (which is far from guaranteed), it’s the song that kicked off the show when I saw the band play live a few months back. It’s like saying to all the Twin Peaks faithful out there, “Hey, we love Twin Peaks, and you love it, too, so let’s kick back and groove to how cool it is!”

Those who splurge on the vinyl edition of Sycamore Trees (and it’s a splurge I highly recommend) will be treated to an additional song that while not technically a Twin Peaks tune is certainly associated with the extended universe of David Lynch. It’s a cover of the “Blue Velvet/Blue Star” montage, a combination, as you might guess, of the song made famous by Bobby Vinton (among others) and music by Lynch and longtime musical collaborator Angelo Badalamenti. Appropriately, the song has the feel of an encore, reprising as it does the jazzier, organic feel of the first two songs of the EP, consisting of Doleman’s breathy vocal ringing out over a spare piano arrangement.

Overall, Sycamore Trees is an excellent collection of songs — not just for Twin Peaks fans but for a broader audience as well. The band is incredibly tight, the production clean, and the overall vibe a blend of mysterious, fun, and dreamy. As October gives way to November, give this EP a listen and allow yourself to fall under the shadowy spell of the sycamore trees.