If you took part in this year’s Record Store Day activities last Saturday, then you might already hold in your hot little hands a limited-edition 7″ single of Cults‘ new track, “Abduction.” If you didn’t and you don’t (and I’m right there with you), then all we’ve got for the moment is the stream of the song below. But what a stream it is.

“Abduction” gets off to a deceivingly simple start with upbeat acoustic guitar and twinkling xylophone, with Madeline Follin beginning her tale of wounded love. Then, in what’s becoming a Cults tradition (“You Know What I Mean”), the noise-pop duo’s girl-group sweetness suddenly turns ferocious. Not more than thirty seconds into “Abduction,” the drums kick in, as does some rather insistent bass, with Follin wailing into the wilderness at full volume, “He tore me apart ’cause I really loved him / He took it all away and left me to bleed out, bleed out.”

Listening to “Abduction,” I can’t help but think back to an earlier girl-group “classic,” The Crystals’ controversial 1962 single, “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss).” Produced by Phil Spector with a funeral-dirgey arrangement, the female protagonist, who’d cheated on her boyfriend, sees his abusive response as sign of real love. (Why, again, did radio stations refuse to spin it?)

Making the slavish relationship at the heart of “Abduction” more sinister — but no less catchy a tune — is the addition of the male perspective, with Brian Oblivion singing in part, “I knew right then I’d never love her.”

Cults’ self-titled debut is due 6/7 from In the Name Of/Columbia. Listen to more tunes via their SoundCloud page.