The amount of options on Halloween weekend this year for live music in Chicago was dumbfounding yet word of the Magical Properties Tour stopping by the Double Door was hard to pass up. While The Gaslamp Killer and Daedelus have both made repeat appearances individually in Chicago during 2010, seeing the two on the same bill outside of L.A. is a rarity—one only heightened by the addition of 12th Planet and Teebs to this ridiculous bill of beatsmiths.
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.
