Crocodiles Have Been to Hell and Back — and They Brought a Great Record With Them

The origin story is almost too good. Nearly thirty years ago, Charles Rowell and Brandon Welchez met at an antifascist gathering in San Diego, bonded immediately over politics, poetry, and music, and have barely stopped making records since. Eighteen years under the Crocodiles name, nine albums deep, hundreds of shows around the globe — and still no sign of slowing down.

“Time Is Wasting Me,” the first single from Greetings From Hell, is a good reminder of why that longevity makes sense. Directed by Sam Macon and edited by Eric Arsnow, the video matches the band’s energy — something between psych-punk and noise-pop and art-gaze and none of those things exactly. Crocodiles have always resisted easy categorization, and at album nine they’re not about to start making it easy.

Put simply, Crocodiles are one of the great rock and roll bands of their generation — celebrated, occasionally maligned, never boring. Greetings From Hell will be out April 24, 2026 on Invisible Hits. Pre-order it below, then catch them on the West Coast this spring.

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1“Time Is Wasting Me”

2“In Love With a Ghost”

3“Let’s Be Strangers”

4“Still Kids”

5“Automated Stranger”

6“I Dream of Genet”

7“Greetings From Hell”

8“Tripping On Life”

9“Whips & Chains”

10“Too High to Be Low”