Noise-rock duo 100 gecs traded tapes long-distance to make one of the year's most acclaimed albums, '1000 gecs.'
There are so many things to love about 100 gecs’ “Money Machine” video that it’s hard to know where to start — precisely the point, no doubt, for an electronic pop duo eager to conjure the bewildering too-much-ness of the internet.
“I’ve thought about that,” Brady, 26, said recently as he sat with Les, 25, in his windowless recording studio in downtown Los Angeles.“Wait, I hope you don’t think you have to be blond,” Les said, turning to her band mate, with whom she also poses, both their backs to the camera, on the cover of 100 gecs’ irresistible debut, “1000 gecs.” “I didn’t mean to force you into dying your hair.”
On Friday night 100 gecs will wrap a North American tour opening for L.A.’s Brockhampton with two concerts at the Palladium; the duo also has a sold-out headlining show Saturday at the Moroccan Lounge.Much of the acclaim has focused on the album’s kaleidoscopic quality — the way it pulls from countless styles and genres, from emo to EDM to pop-punk to industrial, to make tracks that never stop mutating.
“People think we’re just joking around,” said Les, who wore a baggy, blah-colored sweatshirt, her hair hanging in her eyes. “But this is extremely personal stuff.” As she spoke, she puffed frequently on a vape pen; Brady — dressed in a T-shirt that listed the “Top 10 artists who have played at the Fonda,” with 100 gecs ahead of Stevie Wonder and Metallica — kept absentmindedly wrapping a phone-charger cord around his fingers.
Sending files back and forth online, the two made an EP together in 2016; Brady also went on to work on his own music and with the producer Diplo. For “1000 gecs,” they continued to collaborate long-distance, with Brady concentrating on production and Les, who still lives in Chicago, on lyrics and melodies. Asked why they don’t live in the same city, Brady said it was a lot to ask someone to uproot her life and move across the country; Les said her decision to stay in Chicago was “a long story.
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