Credits:

100 Gecs

Description:

As 100 Gecs, producers Laura Les and Dylan Brady threw multiple disparate styles in a blender and ended up with a new form of frenetic, unwieldy pop music. Their brief 2019 debut album, 1000 Gecs, was a blur of caustic electronics, abrasive hooks, and wild combinations of sound and style that shouldnt have worked but did. Remix album 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues serves as a companion piece to the debut, taking the duos weird angles on pop to even more obtuse dimensions by bringing in outside perspectives. The multiple directions and quick-changing energy of the original songs give the remixers a lot to work with. The cute and playful Ringtone takes on a more polished pop sheen with Charli XCX singing the chorus and new, more complex verses from Rico Nasty and Kero Kero Bonito replacing the singsong melodies of the original. A.G. Cooks reworking of Money Machine translates the songs hyperactive b