Crocodiles
Carnishing sunny melodies with a scuzzy recording style and lots and lots o… Read Full Bio ↴Carnishing sunny melodies with a scuzzy recording style and lots and lots of feedback, Crocodiles' Charles Rowell and Brandon Welchez met during their formative teenage years in San Diego. Playing together in various incarnations since then, including in the Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, which featured Welchez on vocals and Rowell on guitar, the duo re-formed in a lo-fi capacity under the name Crocodiles in April of 2008. After self-releasing a distortion-driven 7", their single Neon Jesus was championed by No Age on a Stereogum best-of-2008 poll. As Crocodiles' debut full-length was recorded over that winter, blog readers started taking notice, and Summer of Hate was released by Fat Possum in late April of 2009. That winter, Crocodiles put out a Christmas-themed split 7" with Dum Dum Girls and prepped their follow-up, Sleep Forever, for the summer of 2010. After adjusting their lineup to include bassist Marco Gonzalez, keyboardist Robin Eisenberg, and drummer Anna Schulte, Rowell, Welchez, and the group traveled from their hometown of San Diego to record their third full-length in Berlin. That album, Endless Flowers, was released in the spring of 2012 on Souterrain Transmissions in the U.K. and French Kiss in the U.S.

Crocodiles' fourth album, 2013's very focused and poppy Crimes of Passion, was produced by the Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner and featured just the duo of Rowell and Welchez, plus the occasional guest on backing vocals and horns. Taking a break from the band, Welchez recorded an album with his wife, Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls, under the name Haunted Hearts. The group reconvened and set up shop in Mexico City to record its next album. Working with producer Martin Thulin, the duo continued refining the poppier aspects of its sound, while incorporating some Latin influences. Boys was released in May of 2015 on Welchez's own Zoo Music label. Their next album was recorded in the same location, with Thulin contributing instrumentation as well as steady production. Arriving in 2016, Dreamless de-emphasized guitars and used keyboards and other instruments to fill in the arrangements.

Biography by Jason Lymangrover
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Crocodiles Lyrics


All My Hate and My Hexes Are For You My burning hate at sight It first seems so insane like…
Billy Speed Cross my heart will never die, the pain I face…
Blue I once had a friend And in our world colored with…
Bubblegum Trash Oh, I'm grey (?) and I'll be your love just…
Crybaby Demon Crybaby demon with her plastic rose Did she let thorns tear…
Dark Alleys Walking like a limp I felt so empty hearted and…
Do The Void Something in the air swallows up the tongue You pour your…
Don Fall into the arms of machines of loving grace Satellite sun…
Don't Look Up Fall into the arms of machines of loving grace Satellite su…
electric death song You, a static boiling from the saddest television Your grey…
Endless Flowers I'm waiting here, waiting my tear other croocket stare kick…
Foolin Hey, look What's that sound? Everybody's just foolin' around…
Hard Shy boy City at night Sewn-on girls And whirling knives Is t…



Hearts Of Love You wonder what we have Will our love start getting old? W…
Here Comes The Sky since you're gone a drought's come on i can't go on without…
Hung Up On A Flower Under nauseous skies sad glow of night Hung me by a…
I Wanna Kill I was born into this life To a drunk father and…
Kool TV Watch me being born, back to the beginning They all had…
Mirrors Something in the way you crucify me, it makes me smile. An…
My Surfing Lucifer In a flatline sunshine of my adolescent broad There was I,…
Neon Jesus Neon jesus hold my hand Lead me to your promise land These…
No Black Clouds For Dee Dee Oh my girl yes I'm gonna slowly turn my inside citrus over…
Peroxide hearts In the corner of a bleak room The aluminum wheelchair and…
Sleep Forever Yesterday the sky was cold and grey Kept me as a…
Stoned To Death The whole world is an ocean, here to suck you…
Summer Of Hate I've been chained to this town with a lipstick smeared…
Teardrop Guitar Tell me (?) golden what you built Take my (?) hand…
The Boy Is A Tramp Where were you when I wrote this song? Were you sleeping…
Transylvania I first saw you at the Stud through half-shut eyes And…
You Are Forgiven Here you touch the holiness of your lips Snare your tears…


Aristotle Galanos


on Stoned To Death

THE WHOLE WORLD IS AN OCEAN HERE TO SUCK YOU DOWN
THE WHOLE WORLD IS AN OCEAN LAUGHING WHILE YOU DROWN
IT FASCINATES BUT I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT SICKNESS MAKES
THOSE FEELINGS GROW INSIDE YOUR UGLY MIND
ILL SEEDS WILL BIRTH TWISTED VINES
SOMEWHERE IN THE GARDEN OF YOUR HEAD GROW FLOWERS
BRITTLE, BROWN AND DEAD
THEY STARE AND CHOCKE TO DEATH
OVERDOSED AND OUT OF BRETH
AGAIN, I'M STONED TO DEATH AGAIN

DROWNING IN YOUR OCEAN, I WAS WRAPPED UP IN YOUR SEA
A THOUSAND YEARS OF EMPTINESS WAS STARING, CRASHING INTO ME
IT FASCINATES BUT I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT SICKNESS MAKES
THOSE FEELINGS GROW INSIDE YOUR UGLY MIND
SOMEWHERE IN THE GARDEN OF YOUR HEAD GROW FLOWERS
BRITTLE, BROWN AND DEAD
THEY YAWN AND SLEEP TO DEATH
OVERDOSED AND SELF-OBSESSED
AGAIN, I'M STONED TO DEATH AGAIN

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