★★★★★
Sound: Darkwave, goth rock, synthpop; call it whatever you want. She Wants Revenge's under-looked style of music twisted and shaped the California duo, providing them with a stable compound of listeners, a distinctive sound and even a pair of recognizable sexy, dark album covers ("She Wants Revenge", "This Is Forever"). Attempting to erase an already etched short history is the major pitfall of the group's third release "Valleyheart"...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
The trouble with imitations is that they are never as good as the real thing. Well, with the exception of own-brand cornflakes... Oh how I miss Tesco's own label cornflakes, with their bigger, thinner, golden flakes of wonder.She Wants Revenge from Los Angeles, California are a band whose music falls into the dark wave and post-punk genres. They are also imitators. Mainly because that in many ways post-punk is not so much a genre but a band...
- www.musicvice.com
2011-05-30
★★★★★
The intro to me was a little lengthy; gives you the feel of "come on already!". But it does provide a guiding hand into there musical style. Once you push through that intro, it dumps you immediately into the next song which puts your mind into a swirl, remaniscent of their previous album. The break beats are still really solid and "stompy" which is really prominent in most industrial bands, but, for not being a quote unquote industrial band, they nail it...
- www.bigsmilemagazine.com
2010-12-13
★★★★★
Another week, another bunch of Joy Division wannabes. This week's effort comes from LA's She Wants Revenge. They join mainstays Interpol and Editors in the already swollen glut of goth-punk broodings for the modern age. As anyone who has heard this lot will tell you, it is, of course, Interpol that they most resemble. Absurdly so. Spare the lack of Interpol's knack for melodies and some added dancey drum machine beats, there's little to distinguish the two...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
As I'm tucked into my headphones here, trying to gauge the depth of the sheepishness I feel for kind of liking this, I can imagine Sisters Of Mercy, New Order and Bauhaus on the phone with their lawyers, arguing rampant style hijacking and compositional kidnapping. She Wants Revenge, two b-boy-looking dudes from L.A., have, despite appearances, attained an '80s musical aesthetic that actually exceeds that of most authentic '80s cold wave, synth-and-guitar bands...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
This eponymous release is the debut album from the fast-rising LA based duo consisting of Justin Warfield and Adam Bravin. Warfield has previously performed with the Chemical Brothers and Bomb The Bass whilst Bravin is a hip hop DJ who has worked with Dr Dre and The Alkaholiks, although anyone trying to draw an analogy from this is going to be in for a serious shock. This is another prime slice of 80s revival...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Vampires can be sexy: Think of Morticia Addams, Dark Shadows, The Hunger, Amy Winehouse. Gothic and bloodless from their black apparel to their kinky, voyeuristic videos, She Wants Revenge promise to bring darkwave out of underground clubs and into the mainstream, spreading chrome-plated synthesizers and fishnet fantasies by way of tawdry hooks like the one in "Tear You Apart," the highlight of their 2006 debut...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
You know a genre has reached critical mass when you can't tell whether a new band is genuine or a Saturday Night Live spoof. Arriving even later to the back-in-black '80s revival party than the Bravery, L.A. duo She Wants Revenge embrace every cliché with melodramatic fervor...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
The band reach for Joy Division's numb alienation and end up with a handful of repeated chords and uninspired angst; Warfield grumbles like the Human League's Phil Oakey in the middle of a comedown. The duo wanted to make a record "that would make girls cry and dance", and in this, their debut is a resounding success. There's as much disco as there is darkness in These Things and I Don't Wanna Fall in Love...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-02
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