The ever-restless Skeleton Goode are back and this time, they’ve brought with them a surreal slice of cinematic madness. Their latest single, “Crocodile Wife,” and its B-side “Seaweed & Cream,” have officially dropped, accompanied by a kaleidoscopic music video that’s as strange, playful, and self-aware as the band themselves.
Originally teased months ago as part of the band’s ambitious plan to release six singles (and six videos) in quick succession, “Crocodile Wife” finally arrives after what the band jokingly calls “a long, long delay caused by how long the damn video took.” As frontman Jack Briggs put it, “Daddy can fix it for you.”
And fix it they did.
The result is a wild audiovisual trip that captures everything Skeleton Goode stand for infectious groove, absurd humor, sharp musicianship, and total disregard for convention. The track itself blends the band’s signature psychedelic-surf swagger with layers of fuzz-soaked guitars, playful lyrical surrealism, and that irresistible sense of barely contained chaos that has made them one of Saigon’s most unpredictable exports.
The music video, directed and edited by Jack Briggs, is a mind-bending collage of live-action performance and 3D animation, a visual explosion powered by Nindito Rizki’s mesmerizing digital work. Adrian Jell captures the chaos behind the camera, while Ben Litwicki and Theo Mahmuti steer the ship in production. The track was mastered by Jason Shaw at Fuzzface Studios, rounding off the band’s unmistakable wall of sound.
If Skeleton Goode’s earlier material danced somewhere between surf rock nostalgia and psychedelic chaos, “Crocodile Wife” feels like them crashing headfirst into a Saturday morning cartoon directed by David Lynch. It’s funny, dark, self-aware, and full of rhythm, a perfect reflection of a band that refuses to take itself too seriously while taking its art very seriously indeed.
