There's something deliberately off-putting about Brooklyn two-piece Telepathe's particular brand of pop. Their tight production and singsong melodies secure their music firmly as belonging to what our ears recognize as pop, but each track contains enough steps to the left to guarantee that you won't be hearing Telepathe on your local FM radio station anytime soon. What puts "Lights Go Down" in that space with Telepathe's other tracks is the song's decidedly wicked, jungled-out sound palette, and its morbid lyrics, centered around "the hunt" and "the givers." The result has the same shine as wet concrete in a dark narrow alley.
This is catchy, but in a very unconventional way. Radio in the US might not touch it, but I predict it will go down well in the UK, because it reminds me a bit of some of the early 1980s stuff that was big there. I just wish I could remember what it reminds me of - New Musik? Pre-fame Human League and the OMD of "Architecture and Morality?" BEF? Slits?