Your fans are known for bringing Game Boys and DS’s to your shows. Yeah, an uncharted cave, somewhere where there’s no one around for miles except for us and an interviewer. LES: I would want to go to the top of a mountain. MCADORY: Where would you want to go for your hypothetical Vice profile? I did DMT with Johnny Knoxville so you didn’t have to. So, you know those sort of GQ style profiles of celebrities like, “I went to a haunted cornfield maze with Johnny Knoxville and talked about Greek rock climbing and the meaning-” And if I can have two appliances, it’s a coffee machine. MCADORY: And what do you think you’re putting in the toaster? MCADORY: So, the line on you guys since 2019 has been that you’ve put the internet through a blender, or certain artists into a blender, and that seems like a description that you’ve grown weary of, maybe? So I was wondering what household appliance, kitchen or otherwise, you would associate with your new album? No subject was off limits, i.e., we talked about video games and post-grunge and touched on why critics obsess over the “meaning” of 100 Gecs. They say never meet your heroes IRL, or something to that effect, so I caught up with Les and Brady over Zoom last month while they were in Houston for their tour. This is music that will devour you if you don’t run from it, that digests you more than you digest it. They put me in mind of Gregg Araki’s 1995 film The Doom Generation and Masaaki Yuasa’s Mind Game, from 2004: chaotically seamed genre and style hybrids whose overwhelming vitality makes them gloriously monstrous. The gist is that Gecs’s songs are alive, wild. It also sounds ripe for an over-the-top simile: it’s like Windows 95 having loud shower sex with a Discord server at your mom’s double-wide… while Flavor of Love autoplays in the kitchen, or whatever. Dubstep and nü-metal and ska and pop punk and hooks and the THX deep note: it sounds old and it sounds brand new. If you’ve listened to the duo’s second LP, this year’s 10,000 Gecs, you might understand why people reach for these descriptions. Also: Laura Les and Dylan Brady have never, as far as I know, put the internet or 2010s culture into a blender–solids and liquids only. Nor are they Nirvana for Zoomers or cuspy millennials, though they do sport long blond bleach jobs. Shirt and Necklace Laura’s Own.Ĭontrary to reports, 100 Gecs are not the future. People in circle pits, on the other hand, dance in an ordered pattern, like flocks of migrating birds.(Top) Jacket Balenciaga. When he examined the dancers in mosh pits he realized that they behaved like gas particles bouncing around in the air in unpredictable ways. “I watched with pleasure,” says Silverberg. They watched and analyzed about 100 videos from YouTube of people participating in either mosh or circle pits. (In mosh pits, people bounce off one another and in circle pits they rush around in a circular motion.) With the help of a fellow graduate student, Matt Bierbaum, Silverberg examined whether humans in mosh pits and circle pits truly followed the rules of collective motion, which describes phenomena such as flocking as seen with birds or schools of fish. Several years later in a statistical mechanics class with James Sethna, professor of physics at Cornell, Silverberg recalled the ripple-like movement in the mosh pit and thought studying it might make an interesting experiment. “I had a hard time focusing on the music for the rest of the evening.” “The collision went from one side to the other,” he says, adding it looked like moshers followed the rules of collective motion.
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