[DARYL]

, named for the '80s movie about a robotic boy (the Data Analyzing Robotic Youth Lifeform), is sure to please fans of new wave and films like War Games and Electric Dreams. Like the Faint, exuberantly updates the slick, electro-grooves of the Cars, the Police, and Echo & the Bunnymen, with a little Joy Division thrown in for a sound that should garner comparisons to New York City's brilliant band Interpol. The Dallas, TX, group, made up of Dylan Silvers, David Wilson, Mike Lamm, Jeff Parker, and Chadwick Ferman, formed in 1999. Their '80s synth sounds, combined with the cat...