San Diego's Crocodiles serve up a third helping of their hazy indie pop cool on Endless Flowers. The limber bass groove and fuzzed out wash of riffs splashing through the speakers on "Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9)" find the band at their best. Their reverb-drenched guitar flailing over a steady bass line on "Endless Flowers" is elevated by the melodic, new wave inspired hook, while the feel-good squeal of guitar and shaken tambourine work great on poppy rocker "My Surfing Lucifer". The upbeat shimmer of "No Black Clouds For Dee Dee" is let down by lifeless vocals, with the same careless delivery working better in the atmospheric haze of shoegazer ballad "Hung Up On A Flower". There is a little too much filler, like the buzzing wash of "Dark Alleys" and overstuffed "Welcome Trouble", to label Crocodiles' latest a complete success, but the times they are right make sitting through the scruffy fluff worthwhile.
Seek - "Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9)", "Endless Flowers", "My Surfing Lucifer"
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