Review: She Wants Revenge’s She Wants Revenge

Okay, for starters, I hate self-titled albums. They are really, really pointless. I mean, at least artists in other media call their works “Untitled” when they can’t come up with a name that conveys the emotion of a given work. Self-titling is like leaving something set to default that could easily be changed.

That being said, I adore this album from start to finish. It’s become one of the ‘stickiest’ albums in my possession in that I seem to get completely glued to it and listen over and over again. The only comparable music in my collection has to be the works of Chris Corner as expressed by I Am X and the Sneakerpimps. And, as an interesting study of my musical-psychology, they are actually very similarly styled. I don’t know what it is about artists that make synthesizers sound so erotic but they are really all it takes to get me hooked. You may have seen the video for “Tear You Apart,” directed for the band by Joaquin Phoenix. The whole damn album sounds like that video looks: dark, gritty, covered in smeared mascara and incomprehensibly sinister. It’s fantastic!

• Sounds like: I Am X, The Faint, Depeche Mode…anything that makes you want to take sexy photos while slitting your wrists
• Favourite track: “I Don’t Want to Fall in Love”
• Worst track: I can’t really say this even exists on the album
• Overrated: See above…it’s only a little bit played now, so this might change, though
• Best surprise: “These Things”