By Erik Myers
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About 30 years after dirty penniless teenagers gathered in San Francisco to celebrate love, a similarly scrappy Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell sat down in San Diego to celebrate cynicism, a characteristic common among their recession-smacked generation. “I was born into this life to a drunk father and rented wife,” Welchez moans on “I Wanna Kill.” Crocodiles – so heavily influenced by 80’s easy-takers Echo & the Bunnymen that one assumes the duo lifted their name from their predecessors’ debut album – offer a catchier kind of lo-fi with the stretched-out “Soft Skull (In My Room)” and the gnarly “Refuse Angels.” Blame whichever president you want; the bleakness is back.
Those hungry for tight sunglasses rock are highly encouraged to check out Crocodiles earliest single, 2008’s “Neon Jesus.”
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