Album Review: Crocodiles - Sleep Forever

Crocodiles released their debut album Summer of Hate a couple of years back among a flurry of emerging West coast artists. Littered with hazy reverb and sun-drenched distortion, the lyrics were referential of growing up with sand between ones toes, and it bore a kind of unbridled energy perfect for its summer release, which subsequently set up the anticipation for their Australasian tour. Which was frighteningly disappointing. Welchez, accompanied by co-conspirator Charles Howard nonchalantly rolled around the stage to not a drum machine, but pre-recorded drum backing tracks, generally trying to look, rather than be, the part.

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