Crocodylus, the Gadigal/Sydney-based garage-punk quartet, today return with their first taste of new music for 2025, ‘Limbo’ out today. LISTEN HERE + WATCH HERE.

Emerging in 2015 from a high school friendship between Josh Williams and Stephen Sacco, Crocodylus soon unfolded into a four-piece group along with Mikel Salvador Jara and Nick Meadows. Having shared stages with the likes of Ocean Alley, Hockey Dad, The Chats and more, Crocodylus have built up a fervent fan base and become regular fixtures on the local circuit and around the globe, solidifying their sound in the wider alt-rock space.

Steadily embarking on their new chapter, the band set the tone with ‘Limbo’, a punchy number that continues to prove their place amongst contemporaries including Amyl and the Sniffers and Squid. ‘Limbo’ is full of pure riffage and despite it going through twists and turns integral to the band’s next move, it wins you over with its thought-provoking strength and charm.

Speaking to the release, the band share “With Limbo we wanted to create something called “beautiful punk”. It’s fast, gets heavier in the bridge and all comes together at the end with a tempo change and the addition of strings. This song is about not knowing where we fit into the music scene. Trying to dig ourselves out of the place we sit and starting again. It took a while to nail this one, but stoked where we landed with it.”

Alongside the release comes an accompanying video directed by Nathan Rathsam and Sinead Campion and starring Tiriel Mora from iconic Australian film The Castle. On making the video, Mikel from the band explains “The video clip for Limbo was shot in one busy day with a wonderful crew led by co-directors Nathan Rathsam and Sinead Campion. Somehow we managed to swing cult hero/character actor extraordinaire; Tiriel Mora in the lead role, was challenging not to call him Dennis Denuto (The Castle) during the shoot. The video clip explores the aspect of Limbo in an almost groundhog day-ish lens, the monotony of the western five day working week and its repression of the working class. Also we got to be silly and dance around with Tiriel and blow a saxophone in his face, what a good sport.”

Crocodylus are also excited to announce their signing of both global record deal and publishing deals with Sydney based independent ORiGiN Music Group. This marks a significant milestone in the band’s career, the multi-faceted deal will see Crocodylus release new music under the ORiGiN Recordings banner, while the bands complete song-writing catalogue will be represented by ORiGiN Music Publishing.

From infectious releases including ‘My Baby’ and ‘Social Climber’, the band have crafted a brand of “fuzzy, blissed-out alt rock” (Blunt Magazine) that is a pillar of their own making. Since their debut album Muscle Memory, the band has spent the last three years writing and refining their frenetic yet intricate sound that draws heavily on their personal and instrumental dynamics, overflowing with creativity. Stay tuned for more Crocodylus on the horizon.