Day 7 of Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas series for 2023 brings you 100 gecs, a band I discovered thanks to the Spotify playlist Misfits 2.0. Dylan Brady and Laura Les formed 100 gecs in St. Louis, USA in 2015 and they have now released two albums (‘1000 gecs’ and ‘10,000 gecs’ in 2019 and 2023 there was also a remix album, ‘1000 gecs and the Tree of Clues’ in 2020) Based on the album titles so far will there next one be called ‘100,000 gecs’? Their music is most prominently dance-based, and they have worked with some giants in that field including Skrillex and Basement Jaxx. Their reimagination of Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer” is beyond special. They also issued a Christmas(ish) tune, back in 2020, called “sympathy 4 the grinch” which has so much pop punk and ska in it. Some of their earlier remixes might have originated in a parallel universe in which 100 gecs are musical gods.
I am not sure I can really find the words to describe the wacky, wonderful weirdness of their self-titled EP from 2017. “Fuck Teeth” is delightfully different. While “25 bands and a geccco” might have been made via a sentient AI being trapped inside an arcade game, bloody brilliant! The 2022 EP ‘Snake Eyes’ features the previously mentioned collaboration with Skrillex and two other very classy tunes. The hard disco blues of “Hey Big Man” and the ethereal pop dance, with added heavy guitar riffage, of “Runaway”. I loved this year’s album ‘10,000 gecs’ so much that I placed it at number 20 in the Mayhem Albums Of The Year! Check 100 gecs out, you need them in your world!
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