1000 gecs by 100 gecs - a review

I arrived late to the 100 gecs party, a duo that I had never heard of before December. They released their first full length LP back in May, completely under my radar (probably still hyping about Father of the Bride). When I had a listen to the band's most recognizable song, money machine, I asked myself, "what the fuck?" It opened with lyrics that were.. out there (HEY LITTLE PISS BABY, YOU THINK YOU'RE SO FUCKING COOL, HUH?). I just.. had one listen and wrote off the entire project. Not my thing. Then I read a bit more about how people were raving on about this work, how it made top 50 album lists, how Fantano even praised its boldness. I had to give the entire album a shot. By the next morning, I was listening to more than half of the fucking album. The entire thing grew on me like nothing else I had listened to. I honestly did a 180 overnight with this entire work, and I haven't looked back since. Here's a track by track break down:

745 sticky

The album opens with such a fantastic track, and Laura Les throwing lines left and right, with Dylan Brady coming in soon after. This track is just super catchy and easily memorable. About 3/4ths in, the song explodes into what I can only describe as post-dubstep and extreme EDM, and THEN it even expands more, into an ear-pounding beat, featuring screaming and police sirens. What I particularly like is that they have taken completely ordinary noises (a dog barking, a bottle falling over, a water drop) and mixed it into this song as gaps between the loud, thundering waves of sound. A definite solid start.

money machine

If there is a track that can define this record (or define the band, for that matter), money machine is definitely it. The intro sounds like a copypasta. Under these lines of "fucking cute arms" and being ghosted, comes a twangy guitar noise, with a growling bass following it. money machine is nothing like I've heard before, just like anything else on this album. The song is in your face the entire time, as Dylan Brady and Laura Les throw their distorted, auto-tuned voices at you. The song also has one of the catchiest lines on this record (FEEL SO CLEAN LIKE A MONEY MACHINE!!!!!!!!). Absolutely groundbreaking. I'm not even kidding. How did they even make this music?? It's like everything I hated about pop thrown into one, colossal mess, yet I fucking love it.

800db cloud

Continuing the trend of griding bass and distorted, amplified sounds, this song is probably on the louder end of the record, despite starting with Les' quiet vocals. It doesn't take long for the song to get very, very loud. This track is fucking bonkers. It's a serious head-banger. The only thing I'm not entirely convinced of is the death metal, screamo groan at the end. Not my thing.. I find myself often just skipping the song at that point. The very end sounds like someone died.

I Need Help Immediately

Have you ever found yourself in Guitar Center, browsing the keyboard section, and haphazardly pressing random keys and trying out different sounds? This is basically that, but louder and obscene. I played this song in my car with my friend as we were driving home the other night, and we were both laughing as the song kept taking wild turns, from going to an audience laughing to three seconds of dubstep, then a bass riff, then electric pop noises, and the like. This song sounds like my fucking brain when I'm an hour and a half into my PSY-201 class. To shorten it up: this song makes me laugh without fail.

stupid horse

Yep. It's a ska track. About a horse. And a Porsche. This track, again, is like everything I hate about overproduced pop, thrown into 2 minutes. Again, it's one of my favorite songs on the project. IT. IS SUCH. A STUPID SONG. OH MY GOD. It's my gulity pleasure. This song could easily start a pit at any concert. It could start one at your cousin's middle school band recital. I never would of thought I would seriously sit here and write about how a song with the lyrics "I just gotta leave this place with a big bag / So I found the fuckin' jockey and I grabbed that (pick it up)" is so fucking amazing, but here we are. AND IT'S SKA. DID I MENTION THAT????????????????????