Last month, weeks before their arrival date, Seattle electro-pop duo ODESZA successfully sold out two shows at the Santa Barbara Art Foundry. Then, due to venue troubles and fervent ticket demand, the show’s promoters decided to take a leap. This Thursday, April 16, ODESZA makes a huge 805 debut at the Arlington Theatre for what I’m already sure is going to be the festival season kickoff show of 2015.
For the unacquainted, ODESZA’s Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight make a heady hybrid of beat-borne music. Their orchestrations are twinkly and groovy, and the bass drops are rumbly behemoths, but they also employ verses and lyrics and hooks. In other words, theirs is the type of electronic music that can satisfy rave kids and music purists alike.
In anticipation of ODESZA’s upcoming S.B. takeover, we caught up with Knight to talk sold-out tours, collaborations, and some of the band’s, um, freakier live shows. For tickets and info, visit thearlingtontheatre.com .