New Music From Crocodiles
Crocodiles release first single from new album 'Sleep Forever'
Crocodiles is a band bred out of small town alienation and a love for fast and frenetic music. After meeting at an anti-fascist rally, singer Brand Welchez and guitarist Charles Rowell became fast fans and band mates. "My neighborhood was just so boring that a lot of my friends started doing hard drugs at an early age,” said Welchez about his hometown. “A lot of kids were growing up too fast, like, in a gross was - losing teeth. Plus my high school was full of racists and homophobes. Music was an escape from all that." Bonding over music and their disdain for the suburbs, the two started Crocodiles and released their debut album Summer of Hate last year to much acclaim. Now the band is ready to kick their past in the gonads with their follow-up Sleep Forever. Welchez and Rowell teamed up with producer James Ford (former member of Simian Mobile Disco) to record the album in Joshua Tree, the environment lending it's beautiful and psychedelic vibe to the band. Where Summer of Hate was rough, raw, and a bit jarring Sleep Forever is a more refined but still gritty album, with it's title track oozing a more mature and louder version of Crocodiles. Take a listen to “Sleep Forever” below to experience the escapism that Crocodiles have to offer. The band's new album comes out September 14 on Fat Possum Records. The “Sleep Forever” single will be release August 17 on vinyl with a b-sides “Groove is in the Heart” and “California Girls.”
Posted by Amy Dittmeier on Jun 16, 2010 @ 8:08 am
