''She Wants Revenge'' is the debut studio album by American
rock
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band
She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge is an American rock band, based in San Fernando Valley, California. Formed in 2004, the band is a duo of singer and guitarist Justin Warfield and multi-instrumentalist Adam Bravin. Their music has been influenced by post-punk ...
. Mixed by
Michael Patterson, it was released on January 31, 2006 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of
Geffen Records
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.
The album cover shows a female model wearing white underwear, while the back cover reveals that she's holding a very large
knife
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behind her back (i.e. "she wants revenge").
Critical reception
Barry Walters, writing for ''
Rolling Stone
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'', noted how the duo's musicianship sounded similar to other new wave bands like
Joy Division
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and
The Cure
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, concluding that "She Wants Revenge steal from the best, and steal well."
James Christopher Monger of
AllMusic
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was mixed on Warfield and Bravin's post-punk homage to their new wave inspirations, saying, "
ere's nothing wrong with honoring your influences by copping a few moves and singing in a fake British accent like
Green Day with the intentions of updating a genre that many potential listeners are too young to have experienced first-hand, but it's another thing to do it without even the slightest deviation."
Adam Moerder from ''
Pitchfork
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'' was critical of the album, describing the song titles as "lazy permutations of post-punk poetry," found the melodies on the rock tracks too repetitive, and saw the highlights as being "eerily predictable." He concluded by calling the record, "Too ugly and inaccessible to suggest some sort of post-punk cash-out, they stick out in a batch of songs too bent on edifying studio wizardry over musicianship."
Dave Gurney of
Tiny Mix Tapes
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heavily panned the album's overall sound for lacking the energy their '80s influences had and the duo's lyricism feeling like high school poetry, saying "these guys sound like an incredibly desperate attempt to cash in on the neo-post-punk bandwagon."
Commercial performance
As of September 2007, ''She Wants Revenge'' has sold 294,000 copies in the United States, according to
Nielsen SoundScan.
Track listing
#"Red Flags and Long Nights" – 5:10
#"
These Things" – 5:14
#"I Don't Wanna Fall in Love" – 3:39
#"Out of Control" – 3:39
#"Monologue" – 4:56
#"Broken Promises for Broken Hearts" – 3:19
#"Sister" – 5:18
#"Disconnect" – 2:29
#"Us" – 4:23
#"Someone Must Get Hurt" – 4:48
#"
Tear You Apart" – 4:46
#"She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" – 5:21
#"Spend the Night" (UK bonus track) – 4:22
#"Black Liner Run" (UK bonus track) – 4:52
#"Tear You Apart (Chris Holmes Vs. Bystanders Remix)" (Japanese bonus track) – 6:40
The
hidden track "Killing Time" is at track 66, after 53 blank tracks (51 on the UK CD), which are entitled "Wasted Air" – 0:04.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
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2006 debut albums
Geffen Records albums
She Wants Revenge albums