While most bands in 1971 were busy chasing record deals, Chicago's McLuhan were chasing ideas—big, messy, brain-scrambling ones that turned their sole album Anomaly into a late-night radio transmission from another dimension. Named after media theorist Marshall McLuhan (because they actually read books between gigs), this mixed-media collective treated the Wise Fools Pub like their personal laboratory, blending horror movie atmospherics, Klezmer detours, and prog-jazz explorations into something that laughed at category boundaries. Led by visionary trumpeter Dave Wright with Paul Cohn's multi-instrumental wizardry and Neal Rosner's bass theatrics, they captured their four-track masterpiece in just three days at Brunswick Studios with future Michael Jackson engineer Bruce Swedien—then promptly vanished like a philosophical magic trick. Decades later, the internet discovered what 1972 critics missed, proving that some ideas are worth waiting for. Think Like A Key Music's first official CD release of Anomaly in 2025 finally brings these sonic philosophers into the modern age—welcome to the medium being the message, indeed.