A pair of musically-compelling singer-songwriters will be coming to the House Cafe, 263 East Lincoln Highway, Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Jacob Tage and Greg Woods are both musicians who pull from a wide range of musical impulses. Their records sound like kids perusing a musical candy store, stuffing as many genres and ideas as they can into their overstretched mouths.

Doors open at 7 p.m. Saturday, and tickets can be purchased online at Ticketfly or in person the day of the show for $8.

The story of Tage and Woods is oddly parallel. Both grew up in Illinois in musically-conducive households, both studied at Millikin University and both live in the same noisy apartment.

“Jake and I met in college where we ended up in the same fraternity,” Woods said. “Millikin is a great school for fostering songwriting. Now, we’re both professional musicians, living with seven other musicians in the same apartment. While you think the music would get old, it’s an environment that pushes us all to get better. It’s a very nourishing environment.”

While they have similar stories, their musical approaches differ. Tage’s new album “After Several Blows to the Head,” released Sept. 2, 2014, is a pastoral record, full of warm textures, elliptical guitar parts and rich songwriting.

Highlights include opener “Chamomile,” a whimsical tune perfect for long highway drives, and “In G” with its delicately plucked guitar and mandolin, conjuring mental snapshots of sailing down the Mississippi River.

“[It’s] a collection of personal, underdog songs recorded with all my best friends,” Tage said. “Bedroom Rock without a ceiling.”

Greg Woods’ body of work is still growing, but he has already proven himself to be a grab-bag of musical goodies on his two EP’s “Hello” and “Goodbye, and Later On.”

“I’ve never focused too hard on defining my sound,” Woods said. “That may very well be a branding nightmare, but I don’t mind. If I’m working on a tune and I get a hint of my previous stuff in it, I tend to take a hard turn away from that. I believe the only way an artist can keep growing is to keep trying the foreign stuff.”

Woods has the uncanny power to comfortably sing in any musical environment. He sounds just as comfortable on the soulful “Fighting a Cold” as he does on the ’80s-inspired “On Fire” from “Hello.”

As wildly diverse as “Hello” is, “Goodbye” steers closer to a traditional country kind of sound. Fans of early Wilco and The Gaslight Anthem should check out “All Will Remain” and “Silos.”

“I’ve been singing since birth,” Woods said. “I started choir around age 10 and have been in choirs ever since. Singing well is easy once you unlearn all the bad habits you’ve picked up throughout your life. The voice is an incredibly flexible instrument when given its proper platform. I’m very interested in testing its boundaries.”

While both artists produce lush recordings, neither will be attempting to perfectly reproduce them live.

“Ella Fitzgerald or Robert Plant never sang the same thing twice, and that mentality has definitely crept [into] me,” Tage said.