It’s apropos that Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl would pick the Hollywood Forever Cemetery as the place to make the L.A. debut of their folk project Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger. The album in haunted by all sorts of things – Syd Barrett’s sun-scarred psych and pastoral English folk; a lyrical world of hope glimmering in corners of apocalypse; Lennon’s uncannily familiar vocal lilt and way with unexpected guitar runs.

The duo’s debut album “Acoustic Sessions” is out Oct. 26 on their own label, Chimera Music, and they play Hollywood Forever tonight. We talked via e-mail to both members about their folk lineage, if there’s any beauty in environmental decay and how close harmonies make people closer. (The opted to answer the questions collectively.)

This record draws from some really classic, vintage folk and psychedelia. How do you two feel it's a modern album as well?

Of course we're big fans of experimental 'folky' music from the '60s like Syd Barrett, Os Mutantes and White Noise, but we try our best to re-combine chords and words in ways that are, at least to our ears, a bit different. In a world where everything's been done under the sun, the best one can do is make a collage of things you like, and re-juxtapose them until they feel new. Our subject matter tends to be distinctly modern. We like to sing about synthetic DNA, while playing old accordions.