Performer Notes:

• Crocodiles: Charles Rowell, Brandon Welchez.
• Personnel: Robin Eisenberg (piano).
• You might feel the need to check the passports of Californian duo Crocodiles while listening to their debut album, SUMMER OF HATE, as their sound owes a significant debt to '80s U.K. post-punk, particularly the pop-wrapped-in-fuzz sound of the Jesus & Mary Chain. Electronics play a part too, though, and there's a bit of Suicide in the buzzing synth grooves that throb insistently beneath the feedback howls, distortion-laden riffs, and hazy vocals of Crocodiles.

Professional Reviews: Rolling Stone (p.66) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's a thrilling free play in the duo's wildly distorted, trippy hook fetishism..."

Spin (p.90) - "[O]ver 34 irresistible minutes, SUMMER OF HATE has as many barbed, house-party hooks as nihilistic blasts..."

Producer: Jonathan Greene, Crocodiles, Jon Greene

Format: CD (1 Disc)

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 1 April, 2009

Label: Relativity Entertainment

Dimensions: 12.5 x 14.1 x 1 centimeters (0.12 kg)