Best paired with: durian fruit
100 gecs is what you get when you mix Myspace, dial-up noises, Bling Era hip-hip, and a bad mescaline trip. That is to say — it’s shockingly refreshing.
Be prepared; the first listen is a truly horrifying experience. But by the seventh, you start questioning both your taste and your sanity. Eventually your brain gets reconfigured to the point where you no longer fear death.
And that’s exactly why it goes so well with durian fruit.
For the uninitiated, durian is considered the smelliest fruit on earth. It has a prickly, abrasive outer shell that is cracked open to reveal a hellish, rancid inside. Its odor has been compared to rotten onions, turpentine, and raw sewage (depending on who you ask). It’s banned on public transportation in no fewer than four countries.
Despite all of this, it is a delicacy throughout Southeast Asia, used in everything from candy to curry. Which actually makes sense, because John Caramanica from the New York Times named 1000 gecs the best album of 2019.
Both 100 gecs and durian fruit have evolved past a niche spectacle into something beloved and revered — awfulness and all. And that alone deserves a place in our hearts.
