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The January Lanterns is an indie-folk-pop duo created by husband-and-wife team Andrew and Kristen Camp. The high school sweethearts have navigated life’s highs and lows together and their music is a raw and heartfelt expression of their journey. With bittersweet harmonies and poignant lyrics, they craft a sound that blends warm folk melodies with pop-infused production, creating something deeply intimate yet expansive.
Based in Chicago, The January Lanterns’ music speaks to anyone who’s lived through love, loss, and the complex beauty of personal growth. Their second album, That’s What We’ll Be, released in May 2025, follows their debut LP, For The Kids, When They’re Older (2022), and several singles that paved the way for their evolving sound. That’s What We’ll Be offers a collection of stories about vulnerability, transformation, and embracing life’s uncertainties. They’ve recently had a tv placement on ABC’s crime show R.J. Decker with their song “Take A Breather”. In early 2026, the duo released their latest single “Fade” which has also garnered success in songwriting contests. In Fall 2026, they released their latest EP “still working things out”.
As recent Grand Prize winners in the 2025 John Lennon Songwriting Contest, they have continued to earn critical recognition and commercial success.
Kristen and Andrew are used to playing in lots of different settings whether its 50 people in a coffee shop, 200 people for a wedding reception or 5,000 people at festivals/college events. They have opened for well-known artists such as Diamond Rio, Mandolin Orange, Yung Gravy and more. Along with sharing the stage with big names, they have performed for many private events with Aon, Square, Edward Jones, EquipmentShare, Paycom, JD Byrider, Northwestern University and many others.
Their music is a comforting embrace—a glowing light in the darkness of life's challenges—offering stories of vulnerability, hope, and transformation. Two lanterns, burning bright in the night sky.
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The endearing intimacy of this husband and wife team is fully realized in these left-of-center, dreamy, immersive songs that embrace both folk roots and lofty, airy, indie layers to weave a quietly cinematic, classically American tale of moments lost and regrets begun.
Warner-Chappell
The 11 songs on "For the Kids ..." live in the space between earthy folk and shimmering pop, evoking duos like The Civil Wars or The Swell Season — had they grown up atop The Postal Service's great heights; the set approximates what Taylor Swift's "Evermore" might sound like if the whole record was a duet with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, and not just one track..
- Aarik Danielson, Columbia Daily Tribune