Band of the Week

Since 2010, the husband-wife duo of Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland have recorded and toured under the guise of Whitehorse. While both Doucet and McClelland have gained recognition in their home country of Canada and beyond for their previous separate efforts, Whitehorse has created a peak combination of lyrical candor and experimental musicality for them. The duo has been nominated for the Polaris Short List (2013) for its 2013 album, The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss, and even sold out Massey Hall in their home town of Toronto, Ontario in 2013. The band has also received critical acclaim from such esteemed media outlets as The Huffington Post, Relix, American Songwriter and more. Whitehorse’s live performances add a key element to the duo’s mystique. Doucet and McClelland run live loops and switch back and forth between guitars and percussion on stage, creating live music in the moment and making each and every show a unique experience for fans.

The duo’s latest studio effort, Leave No Bridge Unburned, reminds us that music and art are about expression, regardless of consequence, touching on themes ranging from love to politics to struggles within ourselves and holding nothing back. Taking a somewhat minimalistic approach to the instrumentation, the album takes on the “less is more” concept, focusing on how the instruments, voices and lyrics work together. The resulting intertwining harmonies bring the true emotion of the tunes to the forefront and put listeners directly in the middle of the scene. Leave No Bridge Unburned was released on February 27, 2015, and Whitehorse is Live Music Daily’s Band of the Week!