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I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Fear is on Our Side
Secretly Canadian Records
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written by Bob M
Mar 28, 2006.
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Following up its self-titled 2003 EP, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness offers up Fear is on Our Side, a true-blue New Wave record, but not in an homage sort of way; it’s got substance and heart, though clearly one bloodied and shredded. This five-piece Austin group made up of Tim White, Christian Goyer, Ernest Salaz, Daniel Del Favaro, and Edward Robert —with the assistance of former Ministry tech mastermind Paul Barker producing and engineering—pulls no punches on the tone and sonic landscape. It’s electro/new wave honed and polished, at times harkening back to vintage 1980s New Romantic bands and other times sliding into a modern industrial/electronica feel apropos of A Perfect Circle.
Loads of guitars, metallic and mechanical rhythms, sweeping choruses, discordant-but-melodic vocals and an unmistakable melancholy demeanor, you’ll find yourself alternately mesmerized and involuntarily tapping your feet.
“The Owl” has a sort of plodding, Nine Inch Nails industrial feel, one that seems to work within the scope of the song and album. The title track, a high point, is as finely crafted pop industrial tune as you’re likely to find anywhere, with an infectious beat, soaring guitar harmonics and powerful vocal harmonies.
“Untitled” is a moving instrumental of pulsing rhythm, haunting strings and an oddly mesmerizing melody winding all within and around each other; it could easily be the ending credits to a off-kilter suspense movie or the opening credits to a bleak period film. The album’s closer track, “If It Was Me,” is a pulsating, driving, swirling sledgehammer, playing heavily on the long, sprawling jam but never losing the thread, never seeming like they’re just messing about, never coming across as a hack act.
Such is the album.
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