Meet 100 gecs, oddball besties who somehow made the freshest rock album of 2019
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2019
4 minutes
There are so many things to love about 100 gecs' "Money Machine" video that it's hard to know where to start - precisely the point, no doubt, for an electronic pop duo eager to conjure the bewildering too-much-ness of the internet.
You can't help but be grabbed by the song, a powerful jolt of oddball energy that layers highly processed vocals by the group's members, Dylan Brady and Laura Les, over a throbbing post-dubstep jock-jam beat. Then there are the willfully tacky special effects that seem to be making light of (while only drawing attention to) the clip's setting in a drab suburban parking lot.
Not least among "Money Machine's" weird charms, though, is
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