Biography
She Wants Revenge is an American music duo, based in San Fernando Valley, California. The group’s debut album She Wants Revenge was released in early 2006, with three singles to follow (“These Things“, The video for which features Shirley Manson from Garbage, “Out of Control” and “Tear You Apart” for which the video was directed by Joaquin Phoenix). The band has sold more than 300,000 records in the US.
The band toured extensively through 2006 with synthpop band Depeche Mode[2] and Placebo [3].
In 2007, the group was featured on the track “Time” with Timbaland. In a recent interview, Adam Bravin told Suicide Girls that She Wants Revenge has a lot of unreleased potential b-sides, like “Love to Sleep,” which they’d like to share. Adam added that the band would like to tour with their heroes The Cure and Bauhaus.[4]
The group is back in the studio working on some new material.[5] Recently, they have been released from their contract with the label Geffen/Interscope, according to a MySpace bulletin, alongside acts like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails who have recently declared independence. The group formed their own label, Perfect Kiss, formerly an imprint, in 2008.
Their EP, Save Your Soul, was released to iTunes on May 13, 2008. [6] The EP contained four tracks, “Save Your Soul”, “A Hundred Kisses”, “Sugar”, and “Sleep”.
The group has formed a fan club and participated in the 2008 Nylon summer tour.
A recent (January 2009) bulletin on MySpace announced that the group has been in the studio working on their new album, which they feel is their “most amazing material” yet.
Due to a broad array of musical influences, and a reluctance to stick to a single genre of music, [7] She Wants Revenge’s genre is often disputed.
They have been compared to Joy Division or Interpol in the music press because both vocalists (Paul Banks and Justin Warfield) have similarities to the baritone vocal range of Ian Curtis. However, Justin Warfield has stated many times his band is more electronically based [8] often referring to She Wants Revenge as “Dance Music“.[9][10]
Musically, their influences range from the dance of 1980s acts like New Order, Depeche Mode and Prince and the alternative rock groups of the 1990s, such as Pulp, My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth to the darker rock bands of the New Wave and post-punk movements such as Bauhaus, Danse Society and The Sisters of Mercy[11] who helped create the aesthetics of the original gothic rock genre.[12]
