RSS100 Gecs [extended]
- 1000 gecs [Dog Show, 2019] A-
- Snake Eyes [Dog Show/Atlantic EP, 2022] B+
- 10,000 Gecs [Dog Show/Atlantic, 2023] A
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100 Gecs, Dylan Brady & Laura Les: 1000 gecs [Dog Show, 2019]
I lack both the expertise and the intrinsic interest to judge how well this file-sharing ex-St. Louis duo hitch up "the overwhelmingly scattered trends of 2010s digital music culture," as Pitchfork's wan 7.4 put it. But my mind-body continuum informs me that a good half of these 10 songs in 23 minutes activate my funnybone. Are there really digital music obsessives so stuck up that they don't think the world is a better place when an electronic munchkin squeaks the praises of their baby's ringtone? Who aren't cheered when a different munchkin purloins Little Nas X's "horse"-"Porsche" rhyme? Kids, please. A-
Snake Eyes [Dog Show/Atlantic EP, 2022]
Sonically, these three songs in six minutes split the foreshortened difference between the disconnected DIY digitalis of their 10-track, 23-minute 2019 debut and their more candidly rocklike major-label 27-minute follow-up four years later. Sonically the difference either way is bottom, which beefs up the laughs so effectively you wonder why they asked Skrillex to carry the middle on his brawny shoulders. Looks good on their resume, I guess. B+
10,000 Gecs [Dog Show/Atlantic, 2023]
M-f duo prove four years after that they're more than outrageously familiar sonics and stealth-playful mood with two songs that break new barriers in rock thematology. True, Dinah Washington's "Long John Blues" breached the dentistry barrier long ago, explicitly too, but not explicitly like "I Got My Tooth Removed." And "Frog on the Floor" is nothing less than both literal and totally unprecedented--no dumb France jokes, please. A