On The Verge

Whitehorse

Hamilton, Ontario
A Musical Bonnie and Clyde
www.whitehorsemusic.ca

“We are a duo, but attempt to invoke the spirit of a full band in our live show,” says Melissa McClelland, one-half of the husband and wife duo Whitehorse. “With the help of a looping pedal, five guitars, bass, keys and tons of percussion, we arrange the songs so that they can change and grow from night to night. We also try to keep the intimacy by sharing a single condenser mic for gentler songs.” She says their folksy/indie-rock/country-tinged “musical experiment” is “like if Bonnie and Clyde gave up a bank robbery and started a band.” McClelland met now-husband Luke Doucet through the Toronto music scene when he produced her second record and realized they had “great chemistry. Whitehorse was more of a side project at first, but it quickly became clear that this was going to take over,” she says. The couple spent two years writing and recording for The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss, their second release. “I write a lot of fictional stories, inspired by real places or people. Luke tends to be more autobiographical. There are definitely exceptions,” McClelland says. “We travel from place to place, deciding on a whim where the next ‘home’ will be.”