Autumn Town

my 2 favourites off frailty

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:20:42 +0100

Let’s take a deep breath.

The Revengeseekerz “review”, if you could even call it that, was just something I kind of shit out in a single night. I had the motivation to do so and I feel like I had to publish it immediately. That’s why there’s not really any nice structure to it other than me listening to every song as I’m writing and just putting my thoughts onto the page. I think I just sort of hit publish on it because I needed to publish something. It’s a confidence thing probably.

I also think that Frailty deserves better. Revengeseekerz felt like a club banger, with the same themes as Frailty. But in this album it feels more raw. I wouldn’t be surprised if both are about the same or similar life experience, but Frailty just being a lot closer to that, with all the associated emotions being fresher.

Again, I don’t really know much about Jane Remover, I’ve only been a fan for about a month or so. But there are things about them that just speak to me, it reminds me a lot of that time in my life when I was trying to make my old relationship work, the words exchanged between us, the promises, all of that. It’s all very familiar and relateable despite (I would say) having completely gotten over it years ago now.

In the middle of this I’ve decided that writing about the entire album would be bad. It would just be long and I’d need to fill it with basically nothing. Just descriptions of sounds. Maybe a few stories to supplement that, but I’ve written about the two most personally impactful songs, and I hope that the stories I’ve written prove sufficiently interesting.

kodak moment - shone amongst the rest on first listen

It wasn’t any of the lyrics, I can never focus on the lyrics on a first listen. Unless it’s something repetitive or in a chorus. It’s the sound.

After the first section you hear “it’s all right, it’s all good” and then that piano comes in, incredibly simple with a slow rumble in the background and that voice(?) in the background starts getting louder and louder until everything stops, only voice and then just intense noise with a bunch of pauses and then back into it, and the sounds just keep getting layered on over and over. Until it all bursts, and what it’s like the music, it’s a different genre of music being played with these samples and noises that are a lot more intense.

It all continues to intensify, the rumbling grows louder and more complex, and the piano becomes something almost anxiety provoking, the high pitches among all the intensity, it was something soothing previously and now it cannot be trusted.

I hate to make the comparison but I just have no other frame of reference, it’s like a Death Grips song. Sorry. It’s all noise and layers and intensity until that sample from Sharkboy and Lavagirl which kind of ruined the moment a little for me (having never seen the movie and only knowing the scene from stupid memes) and then it stops.

The noise that plays as it stops is a sample from a Pokemon game when you pick an option, I recognise it having played an insane amount of Pokemon as a child, and then the Wii U menu music. The Pokemon sample was one thing, this is another. I understand the effect that they were going for here, Overwhelm Overwhelm Overwhelm, and then Stop, it’s okay. But it was so much more effective with specifically this song. I had a Wii U as a child, and that menu music isn’t just some nostalgia bait that’s reminded me of being a child, but it’s something that made me feel safe when I would turn on the console, it was just me and my games, nothing in the outside world could leak in.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this anywhere, but I cry incredibly easily. Ever since I was a child I had done so, and throughout my life I had always been insulted for it. It was never by a friend or another kid on the playground, always by an adult or authority figure in my life that had told me to grow up or that it wouldn’t be acceptable. I find that recently it’s been because of memories a lot more than anything else, and I don’t remember if I cried when I heard this for the first time, but I’m definitely crying now as of writing this and listening to it again. I think I’m just especially emotional right now hopped up on caffeine, writing this as I’m supposed to be working, but I think the emotion would be there either way.

The rest of the song is a full 2 minutes to get over it all, put your mind at ease to what just happened and resolve all the thoughts that have just filled your head. It’s got enough complexity to not want to skip on subsequent listens, but not enough to distract you from what you’re thinking about.

champ - most repeated

I think that most of the songs I love hearing about are personal perspectives. This song has plenty of that, I don’t think I relate to everything ever in the song, but just hearing lyrics that I can vaguely put meaning to in a row like this, “When I confide in her, I tear apart the Earth, there’s somebody who has it 10x worse”. The lyrics and descriptions of personal things that nobody would ever know without Jane Remover sharing them, that’s the type of stuff I love hearing about. Not in a parasocial “OMG! I love you Jane Remover!!!!”, it’s more about accessing someone else’s knowledge and thoughts and experiences. I want to hear about what people have gone through and how it’s impacted them, not just because it helps me flesh them out but there’s something more there, I can’t quite put to words. I’m interested how people work, I know how I work and my friends, and I like hearing how different people work. I think that’s just it.

I think the sound of the song is something that seems very fun and enjoyable or innocent. The backing track sounds like Pokemon music, maybe a little less cheery and a bit more developed. But the backdrop of that against hearing their experiences with everything and sort of reminiscing over things, it works incredibly well. It’s a very nice song to listen to. This song also does a similar thing where it intensifies towards the end, there’s a bridge of very gritty sound to ruminate (which is interesting, you’d think it would be calm, but the song has been very calm so I’m guessing it’s more the contrast that triggers that inside my mind) and then it’s more lyrics.

The lyrics that have been ringing in my head for the last week or so, “I have this funny dream, that I mvoed to Bombay Beach, and I’m never seen or heard from again. Won’t have to watch out for Sharks, swimming in the Salton sea, even though I’m more than sure, that one just bit me.” I’m not sure why running away from everything has been such a central theme in my life for so long, I remember when I was going to the next step and I got to pick my sixth form (high school), I wanted to pick the old school that I had gone to before I moved because I would not just get a new start, but also be able to fall back on some old friends from when I was a kid there. At least that’s how it was in my head, it probably would not have worked out that way.

I think now than ever it’s become this thing that I’ve latched onto for hope once I move out. Just getting rid of the old person that used to be here and replace them with someone that’s better. Someone who’s life I actually control completely. That’s probably why I’ve latched onto that lyric so much, I think I just have that same funny dream.

Sorry about no pictures. This isn’t a picture type of blogpost. Again ending abruptly, not sure how to ever end a blogpost.

From your hopefully good friend autumn.

Revengeseekerz

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:48:18 +0100

Hi Everybody

I’m going to review every album that Jane Remover has put out because I heard Revengeseekerz, and now frailty and I like them so now it’s going to be your problem. This is part 1.

One day I just thought to myself “I’m a trans, I’m in the beginning phases of being a bit more open about that and believing it more myself. I also need some new music to listen to because Car Seat Headrest is cool but that’s new one band and I haven’t listened to a different genre of music in years now. I heard Jane Remover is good.”

And then I made a post asking for which one I should listen to first, got a few posts basically saying “Revengeseekerz and Frailty”, I also got a detailed post about someone’s personal opinion on three albums which I really appreciated knowing going in because I’m just interested like that. :P

I’m not going to go through every song, just a few highlights. I also don’t know any music terms or even touched a DAW other than a school project at 11 years old. I’m just a big fan of music that’s all.

Revengeseekerz

Like Jane I also believe that 3 years ago I had that magic in my hands.

TWICE REMOVED

is a crazy beginning track but you kinda gotta prepare the audience for what they’re getting into. I had no idea what the fuck a Jane Remover song sounded like before I booted this up, and the only thing I thought I knew was the album art from Census Designated (which I still haven’t listen to at the moment of writing) which gave me the vibe this was gonna be a sort of chill type thing I didn’t really know what to expect.

But was not expecting that. It’s a great blast to the head when I first heard it, like being hit by a truck. Favourite lyric was “D-D-Dead man flexin’, show some ass now!”. I like that one.

Psychoboost

is important to mention for me because it’s got Danny Brown and I like Danny Brown. It was like a hint of familiarity hearing unc and that. Fucking voice of his. Like having going to a stranger’s party with a friend. Anyway.

Jesus never had it with a freak bitch.

Moving on.

Dreamflasher

is my second favourite song on the album and I’m gonna be devastated if this is the basic bitch option (most played song of the album on Spotify) because that’s what I usually do. Let me check…

I’m in the clear.

Yeah the beginning is just great, “Please, God, save me, I’m so turnt right now” is a perfect beginning lyric to this beat and then hearing “A thousand people scream my fucking name !!!!” (i just found out it’s A not Ten) but fuck yeah it’s so fucking. I don’t know it makes me excited for them. First time I heard this song I thought yeah bitch let’s fucking go despite not knowing shit or dick about Jane.

The entire song is just like, it’s got that scent of longing for someone with the lyrics but the performance feels like the complete opposite, like the emotion I’m registering (maybe incorrectly) is just confrontation? That’s kinda what it is, “Cards on the table, I ain’t got shit left to hide except my whereabouts”. yeag… Talking about it and hearing the second chorus where the last line is almost screamed in desperation(?) makes a lot more sense with that narrative but I just thought it was an artistic choice. No way to actually go louder in a song without killing people’s ears so you have to resort to shit like that.

Out of all the horny lines that I usually hear in music I actually fuck with anything Jane Remover says so heavy and I don’t know why. I think I just see bits of myself in her and something I’ve struggled with a lot is being myself. To me the horny lines are her being openly herself. Maybe I give them a pass because they’re my age and I’m usually hearing shit like that from artists in their 30s/40s. Danny Brown you filthy fuck.

TURN UP OR DIE

sounds like tiktok phonk but is legally distinct so I can like it guilt free.

That aside, fucking love this song too. I CAN’T LIE YOU BORED THE LIFE OUT OF ME ! and then the fucking I don’t know what the fuck that sound is that just HIT HIT HIT HIT HIT. It’s good. It’s a good sound.

Thank god I didn’t consistently play Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games on Wii, I would not be able to take these samples seriously, my worst flaw is soying at samples I know and if it’s a sample of someone saying something then I just can’t take it seriously to save my life (this happens in frailty but it’s saved by another sample).

feels like I should have more to say about this but I don’t. I just like the song. It’s great.

Dancing with your eyes closed

I just learnt is the most listened to song on this album so I feel like it needs a place. I don’t even know how to describe this sound but I think it’s very unique from the rest of the album, it’s like a stereotypical alien sound put into a regular Earth song.

Okay I forgot that Verse 3 was sick, the build up to Verse 3 and then the change is emotion in their voice. I love shit like that, and then it goes slow Real quick, and then Back to Schedule Programming. Yes bitch give me whiplash !!!!!

Fadeoutz

is a standout. Which I guess fits, it feels a lot more mellow, not as busy as everything else. Those sounds right before the lyrics begin reminds me of Stevie Wonder’s talkbox rendition of Close To You that was heavily sampled in Frank Ocean’s Close To You and if you don’t know how much I like Frank Ocean then here is more information about the matter. Either way I really like the slow beginning, and one of the songs I first listened to the lyrics of without so much other stuff to focus on. “I’m still the same pretty little face that you met”, “And if I say you can’t relate you’ll start to cry.”, “I feel lovе just like a popstar ‘Til it turns into a problem for me and all my friends” stand out to me a lot. Even after the music starts to get busier in the style of this album there’s still that sentiment in the vocals, the lyrics, the tone. That same “warping” of the song towards the end, and the tuning down of everything before one last punch that isn’t quite as impactful as the last, and then it all just devolves from there.

I think I’ve heard songs do things like this before where they intentionally do some effect to wind down the song like it’s “losing power”, but it feels different this time. I usually hear it in the context of waking up like in strawberry swing and there’s obviously an emotional aspect to all wind-downs that happens but a change in the singer’s tone is something new to me. (Although I’m not listening to 100s of new songs every single day so this shit could just be menial).

Professional Vengeance

JANE’S SERVICE !

I love the upbeat-ness of this fucking song this shit’s great. Also one of my favourite phrases “Turn me out” in the chorus. It’s all just good after good after good after good. It sounds like song they’d have during an 80s workout VHS and then Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction: I don’t know the name of it, but that sound that compliments the beat during the words “When I turn my back, singing ‘bout you (Get down)”. It’s Chemical X.

Last thing to say is at the end of the final chorus “I was dollar bill dreaming o-” and it goes all fucked it’s great. It’s peak. It’s Kino even. And then the outro does it too with the like piercing sounds, it’s like they play this at the club and there are like 3 moments where you think you can rest and then Jane whips you at the feet and says “YOU’RE NOT FUCKING DONE! KEEP GOING!”.

This is my favourite song on the album.

JRJRJR

Joe Rogan.

Everything in this song I related to, or rather have related to in the past, I’ve had my “wanna suck the life out of him” moments but that’s rare these days. Another thing is “I might ball out on a new face, change my name, then my city”, yeah I’m not even famous and I’ve thought about doing that several times in my life, and I’ll probably change my name again in the future.

The repetition of Two White Horses following me through the 2nd half is so vivid, I see it in my mind everytime I hear it.

“bitches like me get to be happy” is something that I heard and thought way too much about that’s completely irrelevant from the song. esp over the last 2 years most of my friends have just been miserable. Everything’s is awful, and being introduced to a whole community’s worth of awful living situations, having human rights taken from them, mental health struggle, just a lack of control over your own life. When I hear that I think of everyone I know that’s happening and I really hope for the best for all of you. My friends haven’t done anything to deserve the shit that gets thrown their way from all sides and as much as I hate just patting people on the back and saying “it’ll get better!” i’m powerless to do anything else.

I don’t know the significance of this song in general, or this album. It’s my first jane remover album, and there’s a “Him” all throughout. I don’t know who this is. I don’t even know if fans know who this is. I know I’ve said emotion a thousand times already but that’s the most important thing in music for me, and this album is teeming with it. So many high and low points, the music managing to match that vibe and then you have songs that completely flip the dynamic. This last song with such vivid imagery of Christianity, Two White Horses, the words, the everything. It’s a great album. I feel quick to judge on this because I feel like I haven’t listened to enough of it but I won’t stop myself from laying out my thoughts like this.

I never know how to end shit so here you are, abruptly ended. See ya.