With large amounts of people still searching for tickets on the event’s Facebook page, the duo’s show in Bloomington will be no exception.
Odesza will play to a sold-out crowd 9 p.m. Saturday at the Bluebird Nightclub.
Both Portland, Ore., producer Little People and Los Angeles producer Big Wild are supporting the duo ?on tour.
From Spokane, Wash., to Barcelona, Spain, Odesza’s current tour will take the two all over the globe in support of their latest album, “In Return.” They are also scheduled to play at some of the country’s biggest music festivals such as the Bonnaroo Music Festival and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Harrison Mills, one half of the duo Odesza, said their set for the tour is a ?dynamic one.
“We try to make it more of a dance party than people would think with our more down-tempo album,” ?he said.
Mills said he would describe the duo’s music as electronic dance music with pop and hip-hop influences.
“In Return,” released in September 2014, is an entirely different album from Odesza’s previous musical ventures, Mills said. One of the most exciting, new challenges they faced in making the album, he said, was that “it was really different for us to work with singers.”
There was a lot the duo had to learn to make the music they wanted for this album, Mills said. The way the two went about writing music had to be changed.
“The writing process was a lot more in the singer-songwriter style,” ?Mills said.
Chris Danks, who writes for music blog hillydilly.com, said Odesza’s “work oftentimes has so many moving parts, that all the little stems and textures blend together.”
The musical complexity Danks writes on is exactly what John Virgil, a junior at IU, said he enjoys about Odesza’s music.
“A lot of artists in their genre don’t come across as very musically intellectual, in terms of the traditional sense like understanding music theory,” Virgil said. “But you can tell that when Odesza makes mu sic, they have a music background.”
