Kevin Bronson on December 9th, 2009

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Upstart L.A. trio Death Kit trades in synth-pop with a chewy caramel center. The band’s debut single, “I Can Make You Love Me” (out next week), toots its smudgy synths like the bedroom answer to Friendly Fires, and singer-drummer August Brown’s quaver sounds straight off the 7-inch singles by Sarah Records staples Brighter and the Field Mice in the late ’80s. But like much of that era’s twee-pop, there’s subterfuge beneath Death Kit’s sheen. Is this the next great stalker anthem? Maybe in the nicest way possible.

||| Limited-time download (through Monday): “I Can Make You Love Me”

||| Live: Death Kit performs at Buzz Bands LA’s Holidaze on Sunday at Spaceland with Spirit Animal, Letting Up Despite Great Faults and Wet & Reckless.

Photo by Laurie Scavo