Meni su privukli paznju sa prvim singlom "Tear you apart". Bio sam u fazonu sta je bre ovo? Zvuci kao Bauhaus sa modernom produkcijom. S obzirom da Bauhas ne volim bilo mi je jos cudnije sto su mi se ovi likovi skroz dopali. Onda sam cuo i druge pesme i skontao da ima tu i drugih uticaja. Imaju novi single "These Things" koji je jos bolji njego prethodni. Skinuo sam jos par stvari i zvuce skroz dobro. Minimalno, moderno, mracno... kewl! Ali da je netralalucjam dalje copy/paste mozda najboljeg opisa benda.
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She Wants Revenge Blow Up
L.A. hip-hop dudes channel Joy Division
The debut from Los Angeles' She Wants Revenge is a sleek, haunted slice of New Wave revivalism with lyrics like "Take your hand, and smack me in the mouth, my love" and enough electro-rock intensity to send goth kids onto the dance floor -- not exactly what you'd expect from two thirtysomethings with hip-hop credentials. During the Nineties, frontman Justin Warfield, now thirty-two, was a rapper who recorded with Prince Paul; Warfield's partner, Adam Bravin, 36, was a producer and club DJ who rocked parties for NBA stars and P. Diddy. The duo convened in L.A. in 2003 to make hip-hop but wound up rekindling their teenage love for Prince and the Cure on a series of demos that landed them a deal with Fred Durst's label. Now they're generating big buzz thanks to "Tear You Apart," a darkly catchy single that's a massive hit on L.A.'s KROQ and taking off on MTV.
SOUND Outfitted with streamlined drum-machine beats, ghostly guitar shimmers and Warfield's deadpan Ian Curtis baritone, She Wants Revenge updates the gloomy mayhem of the early-Eighties Manchester scene with icy precision and stronger songs than most of the band's neo-New Wave competitors. The album's sexy after-hours pulse complements Warfield's lyrics, which chronicle doomed love on cuts like "These Things" and the S&M-themed "Monologue." "The only connection between Purple Rain and [the Cure's] Disintegration is that they're 'tear out your guts and put it on vinyl' dance records," Warfield says. "We were trying to do something similar, and this was the first time any collaborator was as anal as me."
HIP-HOP YOU HAVEN'T HEARD Warfield, the son of a Jewish mother and an African-American label-exec dad, began rapping at fourteen. Weekly mentoring sessions from Quincy Jones III led to a meeting with Prince Paul, who produced Warfield's B-boy-on-acid debut, 1993's My Field Trip to Planet 9. Later, Warfield moved to England, where he fronted psych-rock bands and recorded with Cornershop and the Chemical Brothers; during the same time, Bravin was DJ'ing in L.A. and producing mix tapes in his spare time. "Everybody from Tha Alkaholiks to Rakim came to my house and freestyled," says Bravin, who ended up selling beats to Dr. Dre and producing the trip-hop singer Esthero. The pair haven't abandoned hip-hop: They're stockpiling beats to shop around someday. "Now that we have our band, it's more fun to produce stuff that I want to hear in a club," Warfield says. "We'll hear a 50 Cent song on the radio and say, 'We should do something for that cat.'"
JOAQUIN'S DREAM The video for "Tear You Apart" is a noirish minimovie in which a young woman is taken to a club by a horny suitor and ends up revealing a ghastly -- and unspecified -- defect during a hot makeout scene. The video's creepy vision belongs almost entirely to its director, Joaquin Phoenix. "We told him, 'We're thinking Rosemary's Baby,' and he said, 'I've got something you'll like,'" Warfield says. "Apparently, he woke up in the middle of the night with the concept in his head."
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Mozda ce se neko pitati zasto sam temu otvorio na Gothic, Electro & Industrial ili skraceno GEI (!). A odgovor bi bio...
