You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
100 Gecs is a duo made up of Laura Less and Dylan Brady.
In 2016, they put out an EP called 100 Gecs,
and three years later, they released their first album called 1000 Gecs.
It was named the best album of 2019 in Vice and in the New York Times.
It was also on year-end lists in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and more.
Dylan lives in Los Angeles and Laura in Chicago.
They work remotely and send files back and forth to each other.
In this episode, the two of them break down how they made the song Money Machine.
My name is Dylan Brady.
My name is Laura Less of the band 100 Gecs.
We both produce, both write the songs.
Dylan lives out in L.A., and I was just recording out of my bedroom in Chicago,
so we email the files back and forth.
We know each other really well, and we're super close.
Me and Dylan first met at a party in St. Louis when we were in high school.
A few years after that, we were like, let's work on a project.