Combining the musical urgency and artistic ambition of their early post-punk predecessors, ROMANCE creates a sound that is at once familiar and strikingly fresh. Their music blends dark, catchy and anthemic songs with an intelligent and unique ideology. Forming in late 2005, ROMANCE struck a nerve with Seattle music fans. KEXP, one of the nations best independent radio stations, quickly jumped on the bands debut EP, WHEN THINGS ARE BETTER, putting it in regular rotation. In March 2006 readers of THE STRANGER, Seattle's premier music and arts weekly, voted ROMANCE as one of the top four up and coming bands in the city. In September of 2006, ROMANCE was invited to play the legendary Bumbershoot Festival.