100 'Psych'/ Review by Lakshmi Krishnan
100 rip into the noxious chaos of “macho” exteriors and anti-social behaviour with a fiercely “end of the world” anarcho-garage single, ‘Psych’.
All things tend towards bristling entropy with Gadigal/Sydney band 100 and we honestly wouldn’t want them any other way! Dripping with distortive stabs, the boys are back with a hotly splintered post-rock single called ‘Psych’, which spits and sneers at the overwhelming rise of male aggression, among other things, across “Sydney” over the past couple of years.
“I'd either already had the line 'Pull your head in you flaming galah' in my head or it was something that I accidentally bellowed out in the very early jams of the song but I guess it set the pace for the rest of it—who would you be saying that to and why? It's obvious that here in “Sydney” extreme anti-social behaviour shut the nightlife down so that was the ball I ran with”, says co-frontman Jaryd Lee on pulling the concept for track together.
Dual frontmen, Rowen Tucker and Jaryd Lee. Photo Credit by Mclean Stephenson.
Nabbing the first signing onto newly established local label Endless Recordings, the typically effusive 100 have linked up with director Mclean Stephenson to double punch with a choppy, nerve-ending music video of the boys “roughhousing” it on the mics and amps, under a charred grayscale filter, set to agitate your senses!
“We wanted the video to mirror the song - a quick, sensory assault. The video motion is staggered to match the tempo, thereby giving the performance footage a kind of immersive rhythm. And the overall look of the video - being grungy and rough - is really just a visual translation of the sound”, explains 100.
Watch the music video for ‘Psych’ below.
The post interlude, which drags Lee’s ‘punk-ish’ gutter-voice into the track against these ultra-mucky riffs, performs as a total annihilation of any emotional complacency. Like heat being unstably jerked everywhere, 100 ARE WIDE AWAKE and hoping you are too! Behind the gnarly boisterous refrains of Lee howling“but you’re really just a sh*t c*nt” , there is a genuine concern and fury towards the more and more casual and crude displays of machismo and “woke” misanthropy that have contributed to blotting out Sydney’s live music scene and night culture as a whole.
If you’ve ever had the total pleasure of seeing 100 perform live (!!) you’re probably experiencing the wild panacea of ‘Psych’ coursing through your blood and instantly remedying the many withdrawals that have been felt after all the feverish, brain-guzzling sets the group have played during their Lansdowne residency in Chippendale (Gadigal/Sydney) or a Kelly’s On King crawl or any live set the boys have toed across the country! Watch ‘em closely because 100 are coming for YOU!
100’s latest single “Psych” is officially out via Endless Recordings on all streaming services. Stay updated with the band here.
Words by Lakshmi Krishnan.
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