Review: I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – “Fear Is On Our Side”

Oh, Morrissey and Robert Smith, what legacy have you left us?

Another band tries its hand at fey 80’s-conscious guitar-pop and crafts songs that feel either familiar or stale. The Austin, Texas outfit fares better, if only slightly, when it pays homage to he dark chamber dramas of Thin White Rope or peppers choruses with glassy guitars.

Favorite track: “At Last Is All”

Grade: C- Jetty, Spring 2006

About the author

Justin Vellucci is a staff writer for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and MusicTAP, a contributor to Pittsburgh Current, and a former staffer for Popdose, Punk Planet and Delusions of Adequacy. His music writing has appeared in national magazines such as American Songwriter, alt-pubs like The Brooklyn Rail, Pittsburgh CityPaper and San Diego CityBeat, blogs Swordfish, Punksburgh and Linoleum, and the Gannett magazine Jetty. He lives in Pittsburgh.