Crimes Of Passion finds Crocodiles in scintillating form and is full of the kind of carefree rock that should make them more popular than they are.
Crimes of Passion is a stellar fourth effort and may prove to be the defining record in what surely will be a long career ahead for the Crocodiles.
Despite Crocodiles' unabashed lyrical rawness, ‘Crimes of Passion’ is absolutely artistic, though, and at times they are beautifully poetic.
Without a doubt, this is their strongest and most cohesive collection of tracks to date.
Crimes of Passion works on two levels then, both as an expression of the duo's uneasy, uncompromising vision and as a catchy, easy-to-digest pop album.
Despite being nothing original, Crimes of Passion comes off a good rehashing of the genre, making you rethink what Jesus and The Mary Chain's Just Like Honey really meant.
There’s an edge to these songs, a kind of darkness burning through the fuzzy, reverb-heavy pop.
An album of washed out, happy-sad, semi-psychedelic sounds that glower as much as they gleam, it’s perfect for those 3am mornings when you’re full of alcohol and regret.
The new record basks in Endless Flowers' sunny afterglow, but the songs here are brasher, nervier, and a lot more fun.
A 'crocodile', Wikipedia informs me, is a "large reptile of the family Crocodylidae." In my search to find out specific information about the band, Crocodiles, I had to scroll past various esoteric Thai and Korean films of the same name, until I finally reached "Crocodiles", the "American lo-fi band." The band's name is certainly lo-fi. Today, it's important to distinguish yourself ahead of the pack of other, similarly titled crocodiles. Seal, that British purveyor ... read more
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