Album of the Week: Christmas Island - Self-Titled 7"

Sometime in October last year, San Diego's Christmas Island released Blackout Summer, thier debut LP. A few weeks before, they released a two-track long single. This is worth noting because Blackout Summer is b-grade lo-fi indie at best, but that first 7"? It's solid gold.

"Nineteen" and "Twenty Nine" play-off each other incredibly well. One covers the frustrations of being young, dumb, and bored, while the other looks back and falls in love (I'll let you figure out which is which). The songs are tight, Beatlesque, garage-pop and the total listening experience (clocking in at just over six minutes) will have you bobbing yr head, tapping yr toes, and maybe, just maybe, whistling the melodies once they're stuck in your head.

Technically this isn't an album, and this release is from '09, but it's Friday and this record deserves to be shared, so...

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Nineteen - Christmas Island

Twenty Nine - Christmas Island

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Wake Up, Listen to This New Crocodiles Track

Here's a new one from San Diego fuzz-pop duo, Crocodiles. I quite dug their dirty debut effort and it looks like these guys kept every Jesus and Mary Chain influence emblazoned firmly on their sleeves.

Their sophomore record is titled Sleep Forever and the title track is only a few mouse clicks away. While the band's shtick hasn't really changed, "Sleep Forever" sounds like Crocodiles took a page out of the Wavves playbook, dropping actual production values into their garage rock this time around. Bonus: you can actually hear the vocal mix.

Sleep Forever drops September 14th on Fat Possum.

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Sleep Forever - Crocodiles

From 2008's Summer of Hate...

I Wanna Kill - Crocodiles

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