Crocodiles - Endless Flowers (2012) [FLAC]

Crocodiles - Endless Flowers (2012) [FLAC]

Release Date: June 5, 2012
Duration: 41:28
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Indie Rock, Noise Pop
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~1,000 kbps
Sample Rate: 44,100 Hz
Cover: Front

01 Endless Flowers
02 Sunday (Psychic Conversation # 9)
03 No Black Clouds For Dee Dee
04 Electric Death Song
05 Hung Up On A Flower
06 My Surfing Lucifier
07 Dark Alleys
08 Bubblegum Trash
09 Welcome Trouble
10 You Are Forgiven

When San Diego noise-pop duo Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell released their attitude-laden debut Summer of Hate in 2009, many people highlighted the schizophrenic nature of their sound. On the Berlin-recorded Endless Flowers, it’s hard not to feel that the circles on Welchez and Rowell’s thematic Venn diagram have been forced together this time around to produce maximum overlap. This self-produced offering has a sunnier disposition than its predecessors, and the recurrent "flower" motif - symbolic of love, death and fragile beauty - provides the album with lyrical focus and continuity. Crucially, their bold decision to expand to a five-piece also delivers sonic cohesion, allowing one propulsive, hook-filled tune to bleed seamlessly into the next. Recalling the Cure at their most carefree, both the bittersweet “Endless Flowers” and the crunching slice of power pop that is “Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9),” are the kind of euphoric set-openers designed to deliver broad appeal. Pleasingly, it’s a guise that fits them as perfectly as their sunglasses.