Spread the Social Love:

New Crocodiles video & 1234 Festival show.

Album out now on Souterrain Transmissions

by Nuno Saque Ferreira +, July 13th, 2012 and has been Read 502 times.

Follow @nunosaque

With their intoxicating new Technicolor album Endless Flower out now through Souterrain Transmissions, San Diego’s Crocodiles release a new video for the record’s title track.

The tale of dark humour created by London director Pete Dee (see also: Ganglians’ ‘Jungle’ video) to accompany Endless Flowers sees Crocodiles main men Brandon Welchez & Charles Rowell at the mercy of an obsessive fan’s desires, culminating in a bloody end.

Watch the 'Endless Flowers' video here:

Crocodiles’ last trip to London involved 2 packed out shows, one of which aboard a boat on the Thames in celebration of promoters Sexbeat’s 5^th birthday party. Crocodiles, accompanied by Dum Dum Girls' Dee Dee and reggae songstress Hollie Cook on backing vocals, had the boat quite literally bouncing down the river as they ripped through a set of new & old material, playing a show hailed by many on board as one of the best gigs they’ve ever seen.

• Crocodiles return to London on September 1^st to play at Shoreditch’s 1234 Festival.

The band has existed in various incarnations since 2008, evolving from the original core of Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell into the five-piece we see today. With two previous albums, 2009’s Summer Of Hate and 2010’s Sleep Forever, the band garnered righteous praise for their blend of scuzzy, surfy noise pop and thrilling live shows. But, finding themselves having to beat a hasty exit from their San Diego hometown last spring, they headed to Europe, landing in Berlin to rehearse and record ‘Endless Flowers’.

Crocodiles are: Brandon Welchez (vocals, guitar), Charles Rowell (guitar), Marco Gonzalez (bass), Anna Schulte (drums), Robin Eisenberg (keyboards).