It’s pretty fitting that Crocodiles decamped to Mexico City for their fifth album Boys, which we are streaming in full below for the first time. The entire album sews the dark, synthy Crocodiles themes everybody knows and loves into a colorful quilt of salsa-punk inspired tracks with a whole lot of funky bass. Songs like “Crybaby Demon” (which we premiered a few months back) and “The Boy Is A Tramp” paint a picture of the fruitful direction the band has decided to take sonically—using salsa and sometimes gypsy-psych elements. The boys do still hold true to their dark roots though, with songs like “Do The Void,” which has the same throbbing drum, night-time-driving-track feel that 2010’s Sleep Forever is known for. According to the band, Boys is “an album for boys and for girls and for boy-girls and mutants, back-alley poets, thieves, space cadets and alien babes, righteous tricksters, sonic deviants, and everything in between.” We think so, too.
Listen to Crocodiles’ new album Boys below ahead of its May 15 release via Zoo Music.
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Tour Dates
4.29 Union Pool – Brooklyn, NY
4.30 The Other Side – Wilkes-Bare, PA
5.01 King Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
5.03 Earl – Atlanta, GA
5.05 Three Links – Dallas, TX
5.06 Holy Mountain – Austin, TX
5.19 Monarch – El Paso, TX
5.20 Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ
5.21 Bunkhouse Saloon – Las Vegas, NV
5.22 The Satellite – Los Angeles, CA
5.23 Leo’s – Oakland, CA
5.25 The Know – Portland, OR
5.26 Venue – Vancouver, BC
5.28 Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
5.29 Lost Lake – Denver, CO
6.01 The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
6.02 Now That’s Class – Cleveland, OH
6.03 Comfort Zone – Toronto, ON
6.04 Brasserie Beaubien – Montreal, QC
6.05 Great Scott – Allston, MA
6.07 Mercury Lounge – New York, NY