He also seems to be totally serious, sort of, but not really.īrady and Les grew up in Kirkwood and Webster Groves, neighboring suburbs just outside of St. He seems to be joking, sort of, but not really. “I thought that’d be funny, interesting.” “I wanted to do this when it was cold,” Brady says, perusing a menu at an Irish pub down the street from the magic shop. But why then? What was the impetus? What burning creative desire were they finally acting upon? He made the trip to visit her and try something they’d been talking about doing since high school: make some music together. At the time, Les was living and going to school in Chicago, and Brady doing the same in St. Or consider the first 100 Gecs project, a self-titled EP recorded in the winter of 2015 and released the following year.
Take, for instance, the magician openers - they thought it would be fun - or their name, which Les previously said came about after she tried to order one gecko online, but received 100 instead.
Brady and Les don’t exactly rebuff such deep readings, but they can be a bit coy about their intentions and approach. Lyrically, Brady and Les chronicle the intimacies and anxieties of the digital age with the perfect mix of humor and pathos, in Auto-Tune-drenched voices that enhance the emotion and the delirium.įor a band so young, with a discography of less than 20 songs, much has already been said about the extremely online allure of 100 Gecs - future pop for a brave new URL/IRL world, the promise of the universal jukebox realized outside the “chill” strictures of the streaming economy, music for LAN ports. Ringtone rap bleeds into pop punk bleeds into trance pop bleeds into abstract sound structures, epic power ballads, sad boy rap, Top 40 EDM, dubstep drops with dog barks, death-metal breakdowns and straight-up ska. The result is easily one of 2019’s most fun and fascinating albums, a 23-minute barrage of sticky-sweet hooks pulled from every far-flung corner of the musical spectrum, cranked well into the red. With Les in Chicago and Brady in Los Angeles, they built their sets, and later their album, over email, sending Logic files back and forth, tinkering with songs until they were satisfied. “I didn’t really think this would happen, for sure.”ġ000 Gecs has its roots in - of all places - two DJ sets Brady and Les put together for “virtual music festivals” hosted in the online game Minecraft in September 2018 and January 2019 (the events were dubbed “Coalchella” and “Fire Festival,” respectively). “I just knew that we liked it,” Brady says. Neither Les nor Brady could’ve foreseen any of this when they released their wonderfully strange debut, 1000 Gecs, back in May. In a span of five days in November, they played two nights at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, then headlined their own sweaty, eardrum-busting show at the Brooklyn club Elsewhere. They began the year as virtual unknowns and ended it as mainstays on critics’ best-of lists and the opening act on Brockhampton’s current tour. Getting photographed with a famous dog while handcuffed to each other is far from the most surprising thing to have happened to 100 Gecs in 2019.
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