PREVIEW: Whitehorse at Doug Fir Lounge, Tuesday December 4th, 2012. What do you do when your Canadia

PREVIEW: Whitehorse at Doug Fir Lounge, Tuesday December 4th, 2012.

What do you do when your Canadian co-worker who has excellent taste in music suggests you check out a band from his motherland? 

This happened to me last week. The co-worker will remain anonymous, but the band is Whitehorse. As soon as I got the heads up about this band, I listened to their new record The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss and kind of fell in love. This husband and wife team (Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland) has chemistry, great voices and the kind of record that seems like it’s going to be amazing live. Good thing they are going to be in Portland at Doug Fir Lounge next week.

McClelland says: “We have a pretty complicated setup on stage. We’re looping rhythms. Luke has a kick drum and I have a stomp box, and we have seven guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, and tons of percussion. So for a lot of the songs, we’re building pretty complicated loops and playing along to that. We’re building it very organically on stage so anything can happen. It’s gone very wrong, and very right.”

So what do you do when your Canadian co-worker who has excellent taste in music suggests you check out a band from his motherland? You say thank you.

Whitehorse with Dustin Johnsen at Doug Fir Lounge Dec 4th. Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm. $10 advance, $10 day of show. Photo credit Paul Wright.