Erase everything, start from scratch: The Blackbird Spyplane Interview with 100 gecs
They come through talkin' their new EP, new album, the power of ripping up all yr hard work, the corniest man in L.A., sui-generis sauce and more "unbeatable topics"
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— Jonah & Erin
100 gecs — their vibes are fun, their chunes are massive, we love this band. Their 2019 debut album, 1000 gecs, was a trippy experimental electronic-pop gem where they jumbled together a bunch of old sounds (pop-punk, death-metal, R&B, dubstep, noise-rock, ska, jungle, ‘90s computer-muzak ephemera) while helping to invent a new one (hyperpop)...
It was the kind of assaultive paradigm-shifter where you listen to it once and it might make you feel insane and old, but then you listen again, and again… and you start to feel insane and young !!
The gecs — Laura Les and Dylan Brady — have more beautiful deranged music where that came from. Today (Fri Dec 2) they dropped a surprise 3-song EP, called Snake Eyes, and it is hard as h*ll. Meanwhile, for the past few months we’ve had their fantastic single “Doritos & Fritos” on repeat: reciting the absurdist lyrics; wondering if it’s a critique of the crass commodification of natural spaces and the global homogenization of culture; and letting the ill slap bass riffs reverberate off the walls.
It’s one of the tracks on their excellent, long-awaited second album, 10,000 gecs, which will finally be out on March 17, 2023, and which we can confirm contains mad sick kaleidoscopic f**ked-up stadium-punk energies.
Even more impressive than that, though?? Laura and Dylan look mad cool and wear weird s**t well…
So last week I (Jonah) was stoked to hop on an Encrypted SpyVideo Call with them and get into such topics as their sui generis sauce; why the music-note symbol is funny & tight; finding your real voice through unreal Japanese Vocaloid software; and the daunting but powerful creative move of caring so much about a project that you destroy all the work you’ve done on it and start over from scratch…