Magical Properties | Jogger is one of those bands that proves hard to describe through mere superlatives and praiseful adjectives. You’re sort of lost on an ocean of schizophrenic sound, where swells of jazz and blues and electronica intertwine with the indefinable, the somber and ethereal emotions of life. On This Great Pressure, the Los Angeles duo of Jonathan Larroquette and Amir Yagmai mix together just about every thinkable random and bizarre beat with traditional jazz and blues melodies to create some unsettling effects. A lot of you old school video game fans might even find your heads bopping along to tracks like Nephicide, which sounds like an 8-bit Nintendo game soundtrack complete with death metal vocal samples interspersed between guitar arpeggios and wailing, somber vocals.

Jogger – Gorilla Meat

Whatever musical genre you might try to fit them into, Jogger seems intent on utilizing their multi-instrumental talents (see: violin, guitar, synth, drum machine, etc.) to both break boundaries and even cover some very unusual artists (does anyone even remember who Laurie Anderson is?).  This debut LP offers some very promising outlook on what the true definition of what progressive music should sound like today.

Words by Jeff Nau

Jogger – In America