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Artist: The Woodlands
Hails From: Portland, OR
Musical Style: Indie, Pop, Folk
For Fans of: Feist, She & Him, Bon Iver
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Why you should check them out:
You know what niche of indie pop I can’t get enough of? Husband and wife duos. I mean, think about it, the songs are always more intimate and personal. The music is always more complimentary and balanced, and the people on stage playing it are usually the happiest couple in the world. There’s something about combining music and love that just makes sense. With that in mind, may I present the Woodlands.
Background Check:
he Woodlands is Hannah Robertson and Samuel Robertson, both of whom claim the guitar and voice as their instruments. Together, they have traveled the world, returned home to Portland, OR, and created music from the heart. The couple began writing songs together after marrying and backpacking through Europe. They experimented with transforming their shared experience and wonder into delicate and harmonious bits of indie pop. But it would be some time before these ideas fully matured.
For soon enough, the Robertsons again found themselves drawn to the world around them, this time in Central America where they even volunteered at an orphanage. Can you get any nicer? I submit that you cannot. After some time, the pair returned again to Portland to finally realize their enduring desire to make music and share a different kind of joy with the world.
That joy arrived in 2009, in the form of the Woodland’s debut self-titled album, which they recorded and released on their own. The record contains musing, melody, and intimacy galore, but it also carries a sincere strength that comes naturally to a couple so deeply entwined with another. In hushed tones and layered storytelling, the Woodlands share a tranquil musical bond that’s easy to see and even easier to love.
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