Revengeseekerz by Jane Remover | Album Review

The third LP from the innovative hyperpop producer returns to intensely maximalist production with a terminally online edge.

With the pace at which they’re putting out music, 2025 may become the year of Jane Remover, and in my opinion, they’ve earned it.

Inspired by artists like Skrillex and Porter Robinson, they started producing in the mid-2010s under the name Dltzk, before coming out as a trans woman and adopting the name Jane Remover. Under the Jane Remover name, they’ve released two acclaimed albums firmly in the digicore and hyperpop soundscapes.

Simultaneously, they’ve also created work under a number of other stage names. From 2020 to 2022, they crafted three albums under the pseudonym Leroy, each titled Dariacore, with cover art taken from the animated series Daria. This music is even more deep-fried and terminally online than their Jane Remover work, EDM laced with numerous samples from internet culture.

On top of that, Remover sought to venture away from this highly computerized and artificial sound. With this urge brought the creation of Venturing, a fictional indie rock band with Remover at the helm, which just released their debut LP Ghostholding in February.

Here we are, just two months later, and Jane Remover is back under their own name with their third LP Revengeseekerz, a commanding return to the digicore sound they helped originate. Over twelve tracks and 49 minutes, Remover treats us to deep-fried guitars, clattering drums, synths and strings of all stripes, samples from pop culture and found recordings, and much more. All this is then densely layered into a lasagna of sound that is bold, brash, disturbing, and thrilling. 

It gets challenging to discuss music as balls to the wall maximalist as Revengeseekerz. Each track has its own unique combination of genres, samples, and sound effects, all of which is then treated with an extra layer of distortion and insane levels of subbass.

To give an idea of just how intensely packed these ideas get, look at “Professional Vengeance.” The intro of the song contains three samples: 1.) an old man discussing the prickly nature of his small town on the PBS show “Visiting…With Huell Howser,” 2.), a line from “Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games,” and 3.), a line from “Pokémon Battle Revolution” (one of my first video games). All this is combined with a compressed emo rock banger that sounds like music from a long-lost 80s arcade game, which collapses into utter cacophony by the song’s end.

Or look at “Psychoboost,” featuring avant-garde rapper Danny Brown. Remover’s production here comes across as a deranged combination of hip-house and hyperpop in the best way. Not to mention, Brown is the perfect person to incorporate into Remover’s brand of music, because his absolutely wild delivery elevates this track above and beyond.

“Experimental Skin” lives up to its title, as Remover creates a multi-phased experience over five minutes. They lead us in with an intensely fuzzy intro that sounds like an anxiety attack in song form, before stripping elements away to reveal the individual pieces as they fire off underneath their voice. Then, they layer and build everything up again, before it explodes into a wild dance break. 

And then there’s lead single “JRJRJR,” which brings Revengeseekerz to a mind-melting conclusion. This song will blow you back in your chair from its first seconds, with its titular “JR” sample (a sound that pops up throughout the LP, by the way) repeating rapid-fire, like a machine gun, while Eastern-tinged plucked strings and trap hi-hats combine in an chaotic, Bjorkian fashion. 

That tendency toward sonic chaos also comprises my main problem with Revengeseekerz. Even the “lighter” moments on this LP ripple with distortion, stuttering effects, and heavy vocal processing, and the louder moments can border on oppressive. I would expect most people need to give their ears a rest part way through. I certainly did.

I also find this album tough to parse lyrically. Remover presents a number of ideas in this record: struggle with difficult relationships, partying to cover hidden pain, meta commentary on their unusual and diverse musical style. However, all those concepts are jumbled together and shot at us rapid-fire in each song, making it difficult to piece together exactly what they’re going for.

All that said, Jane Remover is clearly making some of the most exciting and adventurous new music today. By combining so many influences from music and popular culture, they create something completely fresh, unique, and inescapably cool. Whichever name they choose to work under next, rest assured Jane Remover will bring the heat. Revengeseekerz undeniably proves that.

Production: 9/10

Lyrics: 6/10

Songwriting: 9/10

Overall: 8/10

Favorites: Psychoboost, Experimental Skin, Professional Vengeance, JRJRJR

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