SG Radio feat. She Wants Revenge (Acoustic Session) plus Indicator Dogs – Sunday May 222
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This Sunday (May 22nd) our very special in-studio guests are She Wants Revenge, who’ll be performing a special in-studio acoustic set featuring songs from their new album, Valleyheart. Plus, New Zealand’s Indicator Dogs will also be stopping by to say hi.
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She Wants Revenge are Justin Warfield (vocals, guitars, programming), Adam Bravin (bass, keyboards, sounds, tones), Thomas Froggatt (guitars), and Scott Ellis (drums). Following the success of their self-titled debut, its follow up This Is Forever, and years of international touring, She Wants Revenge’s core duo of Justin Warfield and Adam Bravin departed their major label and took a much-needed hiatus to pursue their other interests.
Refreshed and inspired, the boys got back to their roots, touring incessantly, sometimes taking their music to the people in a van like the early days. It was during this period that they grew as musicians and a unit while further endearing themselves to their steadily growing fan base. Now more than ever they are a bona fide four-piece rock band, and aided by their longtime associates drummer Scott Ellis and guitarist Thomas Froggatt, Warfield and Bravin returned to the studio to craft the vision that had been taking shape in their heads: a loosely-rendered conceptual effort playing out in the band’s beloved San Fernando Valley.
Funnily enough, after years of living on the road, it was looking homeward to the neighborhood they both grew up in that became the launching point for the third LP they were so eager to make. For two kids who came of age in this small town just over the hill from Hollywood, the memories, feelings, images and sounds all came back in a rush; now all they had to do was interpret that sentiment in a way that was at once evocative and wholly their own.
One is reminded throughout Valleyheart that humans, no matter where they are or how far they’ve come, will endlessly struggle to connect with someone who makes them feel good and yet somewhat bad too. In a sense, the band’s driving two-headed engine in Justin and Adam is writing songs that never get old ¬ of a couple against the world, and at times one another, two hearts twisted as one. In the universe inhabited by the soundtrack of She Wants Revenge, boy meets girl and it’s probably not going to end well – but feels even that much better in its wrongness.
The concept doesn’t end with the songs, as not only did Adam shoot the photos of the Valley landmarks so near to their hearts, but they are also each directing 10 short films and ‘webisodes,’ one for every song, to visually represent the stories contained within the LP.
In the end, it’s the yearning that conquers all in Valleyheart; that behind every mournful bass line, another day awaits with one more chance at redemption. Raw and unapologetically emotional, chances are good you’ve been there before; the electric sizzle of a simple kiss; a testimony to the power of right now. Valleyheart is a coy labyrinth of nearly perfect connections, and like in the incendiary stomp of “Up In Flames,” this much is true – the nuances of modern love are playing out at all times and at all hours.
In Valleyheart, She Wants Revenge has emerged with an album that shakes off their influences, establishing them as a creative force to be reckoned with while also proving that, in fact, you can go home again.
The band was originally formed in 1997 in New Zealand by Dan Young and Val Hunting. Early demos and a strong live presence attracted the attention of award winning producer Malcolm Welsford who immediately recognized their unique sound and offered to produce the first album. Welsford founded and built York Street Recording Studio with Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke. Indicator Dogs first album, Anschluss, was released by independent label, Antenna records and distributed through EMI.
The band’s follow up album, titled In The Face of Disagreement, is in post-production and will be released in late May. This will be their second album with producer Malcolm Welsford, and will feature their newest member, Grammy nominated percussionist Aaron Rossi.
