I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

Like a moderately depressed iteration of the Bravery, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness deliver a dance-friendly form of atmospheric synth-spined indie pop that occasionally features drum claps not heard since Duran Duran danced on the sand with Rio. Together since 2001, they earned the potentially stifling accolade of being "the band to play with" in their hometown of Austin, Tex., in the course of refining their sound. Their debut five-track EP, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, produced by Spoon's Britt Daniel, was a more pop-orientated affair, but the band moved into darker territory with the Paul Barker-produced album Fear Is On Our Side, released on Secretly Canadian in 2006.