Somehow, She Wants Revenge found a way to follow the post-post-punk rulebook even more closely on This Is Forever than they did on their self-titled debut. Robotically doomy vocals with a faux-British accent? Check. Eerie keyboard textures? Check. Insistent basslines and alternately strummy and angular guitars? Check and check. As on She Wants Revenge, goth, gloom, and glamour are the order of the day, but even if Justin Warfield and Adam "Adam 12" Bravin have made their music into even more of a caricature on This Is Forever, they sound more confident. They're even willing to play with some irony: the album's cover mirrors the artwork of their debut, except now the girl is wearing all-black, all-purpose wedding/funeral undies, and "She Will Always Be a Broken Girl" sounds like a more bittersweet sequel to She Wants Revenge's "These Things." Warfield and Bravin give equal weight to all of their influences; Depeche Mode, Joy Division, and Interpol are equally worthy of emulating, and the glammy, shuffling beat of "True Romance" makes it feel like a love song dedicated to Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus," while the lovelorn musings of "It's Just Begun" could've been ripped from Paul Banks' diary. The band's imitation of their idols gets close to crossing the line between flattery and parody, especially when it comes to She Wants Revenge's lyrics. They play like post-punk madlibs, as on "Checking Out"'s "She's like the devil to me/Though she claims she's found Jesus/Her religion is killing me/Lets her do whatever she pleases." And yet, it's She Wants Revenge's ability to boil these sounds and sentiments down to their essence (and sometimes, lowest common denominator) that makes them distinctive. They're at their best when they have their tongues lodged firmly in their sculpted, angst-ridden cheeks, as on the snidely danceable "What I Want" and "Written in Blood," which "neg" their little girls lost with more putdown come-ons than The Pick Up Artist's Mystery. While a few songs put the "meh" back in melodramatic ("Walking Away," "This Is the End"), This Is Forever is full of catchy songs that improve on the band's first album.
I apparently missed the debut album of the California based band. This is Forever is She Wants Revenge's second album, and was on a listening station at Hear Music.It was good enough for me to buy after listening to the first few tracks, with the obvious legacy of 80s Alternative Dance charts like Joy Division, Depeche Mode (in their goth/leather phase), and Sisters Of Mercy coming to mind. My ...
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AKA An EMCD Is Without Honour In His Own Home, part IIMelissa got home yesterday all of a dither from a trip window-shopping about town. She had happened to be looking around in Best Buy, when she noticed the song on the PA system sounded a lot like Depeche Mode. She still likes Depeche Mode, so she listened along, and decided she liked the song. All she could tell me was two words from the cho...
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One of my yummy bands is about to release a new album.Video from their first single, Written In Blood *"here.":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4cqN85aumg*You can stream the second song, True Romance, which I like even more,at *"their myspace page.":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=2082497*
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I guess I am a bit of a musical enigma. I can't stand Interpol...their faux 80's angst bores me to tears. But for some reason I really like She Wants Revenge, who obviously lean VERY heavily on the same sort of influences.I am not even going to attempt to explain why I am this way, I will never know...but when an Interpol song comes on in my presence, its like nails on a chalkboard...but for some
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She Wants Revenge will release their sophomore album October 9th. The follow-up to the indie new wave duo's successful sefl-titled breakthrough debut is called This Is forever. She wants Revenge will be touring in support of the album this October and November with Kenna.Tracklisting for This Is Forever:First, LoveWritten In BloodWalking AwayTrue RomanceWhat I WantIt’s Just BegunShe Will Always.
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I apparently missed the debut album of the California based band. This is Forever is She Wants Revenge's second album, and was on a listening station at Hear Music.It was good enough for me to buy after listening to the first few tracks, with the obvious legacy of 80s Alternative Dance charts like Joy Division, Depeche Mode (in their goth/leather phase), and Sisters Of Mercy coming to mind. My ...
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| 1 First, Love |
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| 2 Written in Blood |
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| 3 Walking Away |
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| 4 True Romance |
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| 5 What I Want |
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| 6 It's Just Begun |
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| 7 She Will Always Be a Broken Girl |
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| 8 This Is the End |
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| 9 Checking Out |
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| 10 Pretend the World Has Ended |
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| 11 Replacement |
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| 12 All Those Moments |
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| 13 Rachael |
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