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Meet 100 gecs, oddball besties who somehow made the freshest rock album of 2019

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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