100 gecs are just as surprised that people loved their album
in May—23 minutes of careening, tentacular pop—didn’t expect to perform it much. Not only had they grown accustomed to cowriting songs from across the country, she in Chicago and he in Los Angeles, but they had little reason to think they could fill venues even if they were in the same place.
Les and Brady met in “2011-ish” in St. Louis, and have worked together in various capacities since, releasing a debut self-titled EP in 2016. They had the shorthand rapport of longtime collaborators, noting a shared preshow taste for Fritos and hamburgers and eagerly discussing a remix albumthat they say is in the pipeline. “What is this?” Les excitedly asked at one point, when a song that caught her ear played on the venue’s sound system.
In its glitched-out palette and embrace of various musical influences , there’s a hyper-referential chaos tothat could be said to mirror the experience of being online . It’s a narrative that both writes itself and has already been written. “That is a big part of it,” Les was quick to point out when asked about the internet-fueled aspect of the music.
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