Those who clocked the band's transition from 2006's debut Kid City to 2008's startling tropical-punk Skeleton should know the LA quartet aren't ones for repeating themselves. To Skeleton's hot-hot-hot template, they now add glassy shards of 'cold wave' pop, with synthesisers, sequencers and altogether broodier beats, inspired by UK dreampop and goth. This is another helter-skelter joy ride through four boys' private party. From the pell-mell pop of "Sequins" to the New Romantic crush of first single "Throwing Shade" and the title track's My Bloody Valentine scree, Crush feels a long way from the Smell Club band scene of Abe Vigoda's roots.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sequins
2. Dream Of My Love (Chasing After You)
3. Throwing Shade
4. Beverly Slope
5. Crush
6. November
7. Pure Violence
8. Repeating Angel
9. To Tears
10. We Have To Mask