The shadowy electronic side band of AFI's main songwriting team of Davey Havok and Jade Puget, Blaqk Audio was officially unveiled in the late 2000s with the goth-dance CexCells. Taking inspiration from industrial dance, new wave, and EBM, the project allowed Havok and Puget to indulge their dark, dance-centric tendencies, topping the U.S. Dance charts three consecutive times. By 2019, the pair had issued their fourth album of polished synth pop revivalism, Only Things We Love, to close out the decade. The 2020s kicked off with their fifth set, Beneath the Black Palms, which was quickly followed by 2022's Trop d'amour.