Crocodiles – Sleep Forever : Album Reviews

A band that purports to be art-rock pop (or anything vaguely similar) is almost certainly welcoming endless bundles of criticism, usually involving words such as pretentious, unoriginal, and frighteningly contrived. And although I have little to no anecdotal evidence that this has ever been a problem for Dan Diego garage duo Crocodiles, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that these nasty words may have been levelled at them at some stage throughout their career thus far. Yet, with James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco) behind the desk this time around for their second LP Sleep Forever, these lads have stumbled across a deeper aesthetic within their brooding sound that they can legitimitely claim as their own.