Jonathan Zwickel writes a letter to She Wants Revenge’s Justin Warfield in this week’s U&Cs:

SHE WANTS REVENGE, KENNA, IO ECHO
(Showbox at the Market) Justin Warfield: Put down the guyliner and ditch the guitar. I understand the need for artistic evolution, but damn, man—you were such a badass MC back in ‘92, and this electro-goth-lite is really beneath you. My Field Trip to Planet 9 is a stone classic—a stoned classic, really—the first truly tripped-out, psychedelic hiphop album, way ahead of its time. Dense, head-spinning production by Prince Paul, reverbed rhymes about LSD, Korova Milk Bar, and Naked Lunch. You predated Edan by a decade! That shit made my senior year of high school! The only thing She Wants Revenge is making is a fair-to-middling Depeche Mode knockoff. Dude, you’re Jarobi’s cousin! Hiphop is in your blood! Come back, Justin! JONATHAN ZWICKEL