10,000 gecs
The music of Dylan Brady and Laura Les is what you might get if you took the trashiest tropes of early-2000s pop and slurred them together so violently it sounded almost avant-garde. It’s not that they treat their rap metal (“Dumbest Girl Alive,” “Billy Knows Jamie”), mall-punk (“Hollywood Baby”), and movie-trailer ska (“Frog on the Floor,” “I Got My Tooth Removed”) as means to a grander artistic end—if anything, *10,000 gecs* puts you in the mind of kids so excited to share their excitement that they spit out five ideas at once. And while modern listeners will be reminded of our perpetually scatterbrained digital lives, the music also calls back to the sense of novelty and goofiness that have propelled pop music since the chipmunk squeals of doo-wop and beyond. Sing it with them now: “Put emojis on my grave/I’m the dumbest girl alive.”
The madcap duo’s second album is about many things—junk food, being dumb, the ska revival—but mostly it’s about two savants making pop music sound absurdly fun.
The hyperpop trailblazers take sharp left turns into pop-punk and nu-metal on this whiplash-inducing jamboree
With a furiously fast tempo, 100 Gecs cram ten songs into 10,000 Gecs' brief runtime, forming a dizzying, mismatched, cartoonish mosaic of popular culture.
Exhausting, memeable electro-rock songs that sound like Sonic the Hedgehog had an accident with a cement mixer
Missouri hyperpop duo 100 gecs crank the catchiness and multiply the mayhem on long-awaited second album 10,000 gecs…
Since emerging in the late 2010s, hyperpop duo 100 gecs' sound has been somewhere between pop and panic attack, chaotically combining the most extreme versions of multiple styles and then speeding everything up to near breaking points.
What if a TIE Fighter blew up a gas station McDonald’s? What if Cotton-Eye Joe had an amphibian friend with equally ambiguous comings and goings? What if dental woes necessitated a soul-ska ballad-anthem? These are but a few of the questions 100 gecs answers with their long-awaited major label debut, 10,000 gecs.
Masked by a silly and chaotic outer layer, Missouri’s 100 gecs are actually one of the sharpest projects around right now. The duo, made up of Laura Les
The US pop-punk duo go for the mainstream jugular with nagging melodies and killer hooks <strong><br></strong>
While it may appear wholly flippant upon first listen, 100 gecs’s ‘10,000 gecs’ is far more sophisticated than it seems. Read our review.
100 gecs' 10000 Gecs succeeds as a cultural correlative, an audial reflection of modern-day life, as much as, perhaps more than, a purely aesthetic offering.
10 000 Gecs by 100 Gecs album review by Otis Cohan Moan. The duo's full-length is out today via Atlantic/Dog Show Records
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Bonkers eclecto-core smash-pop from playfully noisy US duo. Review by Thomas H Green.