Jane Remover Takes Their Place as Hyperpop’s Vengeful Superhero on ‘Revengeseekerz’
A spectacular rupture of sound and vision, the album marks a new high for one of the decade’s most enthralling young artists.
Just a few years ago, Jane Remover was an introvert recording alone in their childhood bedroom, trying to sing quietly enough so that their family wouldn’t hear them. Back then, the teenager from suburban New Jersey was a hyperpop prodigy who used digital wizardry to crack open their emo heart. “Go to college, have a shit time,” they predicted on a fuzzed-out early song called “Seventeen. “I’ll get a job and I won’t be happy/But if you ask I’ll say, ‘I’m fine.’”
That vision of cubicle hell did not come to pass. In 2021, during their first semester of college, Jane released Frailty, a neverending smash cut of glitchy samples, acoustic guitar, bitcrushed beats, and coming-of-age angst that still stands as one of the decade’s most head-spinning debut albums. They were making music that sounded like the future for a generation that—faced with pandemic woes, climate collapse, and a host of other societal ills—seemed in danger of not having one.
Soon enough, Jane dropped out of school. They came out publicly as trans. They started motoring through America on tour, singing—loudly—to fans who were beginning to bring color back to their lives after lockdowns. They were making their own way, on their terms. It didn’t seem ridiculous to think they had the potential to be a totemic modern originator like Skrillex or Lil Peep, someone who jolts pop music off its conservative axis, if only for a moment. Revengeseekerz doubles down on that promise.
