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The Woodlands

The Woodlands Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Folk / Indie / Pop

    Location Portland, Oregon, Un

    Profile Views: 142849

    Last Login: 2/6/2012

    Member Since 10/18/2007

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnRoZXdvb2RsYW5kcy5iYW5kY2FtcC5jb20=

    Record Label Self-Released

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    PRESS & BOOKING CONTACT: thewoodlandsmusic [at] gmail [dot] com

  • Members

    Hannah Robertson / Samuel Robertson / Joined live by guests

  • Influences

  • Sounds Like

    Eating honey from your hand...

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Bio

The Woodlands, a wife and husband indie folk-pop duo, craft songs of lyrical poetry, lush melody and lingering revelry. They conjure faraway lands and the longing of lovers with timeless imagery that unearths both the shadow of tragedy and the glisten of wonder.

While backpacking through Europe and then Central America, they stumbled upon a deep realization that they had been smitten by the merriment of making music. They returned to the US with a gleam and a goal of recording an album and pursuing music further.

They found themselves in a corner of their Portland apartment bedroom amidst an aged and worn wooden desk, elusive quiet night hours, and a homemade studio fort of blankets and pillows. There The Woodlands traveled the byways of one another's souls--seeking, listening and searching for words and sounds with which to share what they found. They independently recorded and produced their self-released debut album, which has been received with both national and international exposure and accolades.

A synthpop dance remix project called Heavy Hands Remix is also in the repertoire. Bananas! The Woodlands have mixed up a blissful electronic ruckus as they have deconstructed and reshaped five indie folk tracks from their debut album. Heavy Hands Remix EP is poised to pounce. The next full-length album is now in the works for The Woodlands, who continue to mine the songwriting ore from the depths of their cavernous creativity.



Press


"Gentle yet haunting, mysterious yet familiar, the music of the husband/wife duo the Woodlands is full of intrigue."
---SPIN


"We already liked the husband and wife duo from Portland, Oregon for the self-titled record they released last year. But recently, they made a move that might put them in contention for the hippest indie couple in the universe. "
---PASTE MAGAZINE


"Hannah muses about daydreams and longings while Samuel fills the sonic atmosphere with enchanting melodies."
---KCRW (Today's Top Tune)


"Serene mosaic of fairytale-like sound."
---CMJ


"The Woodlands' whisper pop will be a perfect compliment...just as the day's final hour of sunlight comes to settle on the horizon."
---Willamette Week


"This band could just as easily be a folk-pop duo from Stockholm or Liverpool, or even Berlin. It’s a trait that makes their music unique, and it makes it really, really good."
---FensePost


"The Woodlands album is absolutely an ethereal trip through some of the best indie folk pop you will find (or I have ever found)."
---Slowcoustic


"As soon as we listened we dug out our English dictionaries and started flipping desperately through them, looking for the right words to describe it. They had to be beautiful words, big words, words that hadn't been used before!"
---Letters Have No Arms!


"This is a very good start of a promising band that should keep taking us into their haunting reflections of love and life."
---AW Music


"Honey and haze...A beautiful collection of simply-arranged, but wondrous and poetic sounds."
---Womenfolk


"Captures all of the beauty in their lives in each slow moving pass of the lens...The duo from Portland manages to craft engaging songs that only get better with each listen. Not a bad song in the bunch."
---Hero Hill


"The Woodlands make Zach Braff wish that Garden State would have been released in 2010."
---Hear The Unheard


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