Abe Vigoda’s new album Crush is due out in September on Bella Union. Citing “cold wave and minimal stuff” as an inspiration, rather than the “tropical punk” they had been labelled with, they have already given us lead track, the repetitive and chilly, Throwing Shade as evidence of a new direction.

Now, new taster To Tears also certainly lives up to the new direction. It has synths, it is icy cool, but thankfully retains the spiky rhythms and guitars that has always been part of their stock in trade.

Visit their MySpace here.

Download Abe Vigoda – To Tears mp3 (from Crush)

Download Abe Vigoda – Throwing Shade mp3 (from Crush)

See them in the UK:

9 Oct OX4 Festival, Oxford

12 Oct Audio, Brighton

13 Oct Cargo, London

14 Oct XOYO (with No Age), London