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Artist: Crocodiles
Album: Sleep Forever
Label: Fat Possum
Playtime: 35:16 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.fatpossum.com
Rip date: 2010-09-10
Street date: 2010-09-14
Size: 58.68 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 222 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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The second full length from this amazing dirty shoegaze band! It's a much
better this time around. So much fun, highly recommended for fans of Titus
Andronicus.
"Last year Brandon Welchez and Chuck Rowell released their acclimated debut
album as Crocodiles. Alongside Rolling Stone s support, Summer of Hate also
garnered them endless blog buzz and tours across the US and Europe supporting
bands like Holy Fuck and The Horrors. Straddling vast sonic terrains from the
jagged guitar stabs of street-strutting lead single Neon Jesus , to throbbing
kraut rock, expansive shoegaze and irresistibly danceable disco-punk jams,
Summer Of Hate drew comparisons with The Velvets and Primal Scream.
Significantly, it also caught the ear of one James Ford Simian Mobile Disco
man and producer of Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons and Florence and the Machine
amongst others. Together, all three headed into the desert in early 2010 to
create Summer of Hate s psychedelic, hypnotic and anthemic follow-up. An
album that would later be christened Sleep Forever
Raw it may be, but Sleep Forever is still an unmistakably more refined beast
than its predecessor. Drum and organ whirls envelope you on tracks like
Mirrors and Sleep Forever , which nod to Ladies and Gentlemen... era
spiritualized as much as do Neu! and The Velvet Underground. Meanwhile,
Brandon s tough Cali sneer gives it most emotional performance to date in All
My Hate and My Hexes Are For You.
Back with a full five-piece band including drummer Alianna Kalaba, bassist
Marco Gonzalez and Keyboardist Robin Eisenberg and a summer of open roads
ahead of them, it seems unlikely that Crocodiles will even have to do
anything more mundane than sound check again."
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Mirrors ( 5:32)
02. Stoned To Death ( 5:23)
03. Hollow Hollow Eyes ( 2:53)
04. Girl In Black ( 5:05)
05. Sleep Forever ( 4:11)
06. Billy Speed ( 3:23)
07. Hearts Of Love ( 4:02)
08. All My Hate And My Hexes Are For You ( 4:47)
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