100 Gecs on Their ‘Spooky’ Hollywood Bowl Halloween Show With Boygenius, Grammy Hopes, and Bizarre Awards From Distant Universities
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music 100 Gecs are one of the most strangely fascinating acts to hit music in many years. They’re smart and stupid and appealing and annoying and infectious and grating and many other opposites, and although they take what they do seriously, they seemingly can’t believe they’re being taken seriously.
Their music is vaguely adjacent to hyper-pop and can broadly be described as alternative, but it sounds like nothing else while having dozens of different references — it music moves from innovative to obnoxious, often within seconds, and they’re certainly the only act to open for electronic rock icons Nine Inch Nails, rap group Brockhampton and emo legends My Chemical Romance.
The duo — high school friends Laura Les and Dylan Brady — grew up in the St. Louis area, and although they often live in different parts of the country (currently the former is in Colorado and the latter in Los Angeles) they seem like two halves of the same brain both musically and in person, constantly finishing and evolving each other’s sentences and thoughts.
As they say below, the Gecs expected their first EP (“100 Gecs”) and their first album (“1000 Gecs”) to be heard by a couple of hundred people — but by the time they released their second album (“10,000 Gecs”) they’d been the subject of Pitchfork-level adulation and major features in the New York Times and the New Yorker; signed with New York-based Atlantic Records; and even were artists in residence at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
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