Grade: B+ | Genre: Rock
Summary: She Wants Revenge debut disk shows extra helpings of promise. Its not going to change the way you look at music, but it will help you get lost in a sound so old that its new again.

Truly original voices in music today are damn near extinct. What artist can really say they haven't melded a lifetime of influences to sculpt their sound? At best, you have a well-textured vision, running along a vibe another band has already gotten us comfortable with. At worst, you have a carbon copy, knock-off that might as well play local dives as a blah cover band. When your ears first become acquainted with She Wants Revenge, its impossible to not take a beeline straight to Interpol. Yet Interpol is basically just a derivative of Joy Division with a smack of Depeche Mode. As you dig further into She Wants Revenge's sonic cache, you see touches of David Bowie, a flicker of the Cure and even contemporaries like Lake Trout. Shoot, the band's name even sounds like it was cherry picked off a track on a Joy Division album. This amalgamation of sound mesh together to form an enticing album that can't stake its claim on originality, but knows how to maximize the tools at its musical forefathers.