Revengeseekerz

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Revengeseekerz
Jane remover revengeseekerz.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 4, 2025 (2025-04-04)
RecordedSeptember 2024 - February 2025
StudioRemover's home, Chicago
Genre
Length49:26
Label DeadAir
Producer Jane Remover
Jane Remover chronology
Census Designated
(2023)
Revengeseekerz
(2025)
Indie Rock
(2025)
Singles from Revengeseekerz
  1. "JRJRJR"
    Released: January 1, 2025
  2. "Dancing with Your Eyes Closed"
    Released: February 26, 2025
  3. "Dreamflasher"
    Released: September 12, 2025

Revengeseekerz is the third studio album by the American musician Jane Remover. It was released by DeadAir Records on April 4, 2025. The album features a sole guest appearance by American rapper Danny Brown. As with their previous two albums, production was handled entirely by Jane Remover.

Contents

The album was supported by three singles, "JRJRJR", "Dancing with Your Eyes Closed" and "Dreamflasher". Upon release, Revengeseekerz was met with critical acclaim.

Background

Jane Remover released their second studio album, Census Designated , in 2023. [1] It received positive reviews from publications such as Pitchfork, [2] The Guardian , [3] and Exclaim! . [4] It was generally described as a shoegaze [2] and post-rock [5] album. In 2024, they released the non-album singles "Flash in the Pan", "Dream Sequence", "Magic I Want U", and "How to Teleport", being left as unfinished tracks. [6] During February 2025, they released their album Ghostholding under the alias Venturing, conceptualized around the same time as Revengeseekerz. [7]

Development

Remover revealed in a January 2025 Billboard article that they recorded an 18-song album containing the previously released singles throughout the summer of 2024 but scrapped it in favor of the sound on Revengeseekerz. [8] They conceptualized the album while opening for JPEGMafia on his Lay Down My Life tour, beginning work on it in September 2024 upon the tour's completion, [6] fueled by an experience in which maggots had infested their refrigerator due to their power bill failing to be paid while on tour. They couch surfed for a week before returning home to work on the album once the infestation had been taken care of. [9]

In an interview with NPR, Remover predicted that "whatever comes next" after Census Designated would be a sharp contrast. [6] After Remover's leg on JPEGMafia's Lay Down My Life tour, they wrote "JRJRJR" on September 28, 2024, being the only track finished for three months at the time. [6] As Remover started when beginning production on Revengeseekerz, "physically and career wise, I was so hungry." [10] At the time the production for Revengeseekerz began, it was Remover's third attempt at making their third studio album. [11] The album's production began in October 2024 and concluded in February 2025. [12] According to Remover, each track was made during one or two studio sessions. [13]

Revengeseekerz' title is influenced by Kill Bill: Volume 1, Remover's favorite film. [6] Another influence of the album is electronic music project Machine Girl's ...Because I'm Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For (2017). [6] Remover's themes of retributory violence connect to "Movies for Guys" from their debut album Frailty, where they narrate taking glass shards to an offender and watch television as they bleed out on the sidewalk. [6] This is reflected in multiple tracks from Revengeseekerz: "Angels in Camo" opens with "Dear God, place a curse on those who wronged me"; "Turn Up or Die" includes "Give death bitches proper sendoff. Explosive bitch, blow his head off"; and "Experimental Skin" includes "I wanna sin, blow the city up." [6]

Composition

Overview

Revengeseekerz is a digicore album, with elements of EDM, [14] experimental hip-hop, [15] house, [16] hyperpop, industrial hip-hop, [17] and rage. [16] [6] Marked as a departure from Census Designated 's shoegaze [2] and post-rock [5] sound and a return to the genre since Frailty, [18] [19] it is nearly 50 minutes long and there are twelve tracks on the album. [19] [14] [16] The album's concept is based on Remover dealing with their newfound fame and how it affected their mental health and relationship with others. [18] Being self-referential, almost each track samples Remover's previous music they produced. [18] Danny Brown is the only guest artist on the album, being featured on "Psychoboost". [20]

The album has an extensive collection of sound effects sampled, including battle announcers from Pokémon Wii games, [19] Japanese animated apocalyptic science fiction film The End of Evangelion, [19] a Guitar Hero iOS game, [19] dialogue from Duke Nukem , [19] a PBS series, [19] teen supernatural horror film The Craft, [19] a Sonic fan game, [16] and voice lines from Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. [16] Several songs sample tracks Remover produced in the past, as well as their side projects and production work for other digicore artists. [19] [10]

Matt Mitchel of Paste Magazine states: "For 12 songs, Jane is a self-referential tornado rummaging around in a maximalist ether, embellishing micro-genres and splitting continuums into their own playground of crushing techno, EDM, and blazing hyperpop." [14] In terms of production, Remover considers Revengeseekerz to be closer to Frailty than Census Designated, with the involvement of EDM. [6] They consider it to be a "blind rage" album, explaining it as based on people who "wronged" them. [6] Remover played guitar in seven out of twelve tracks. [6]

Tracks

The opening track, "Twice Removed", beginning with a sample reminiscent of a video game loading, [21] is layered with booming 808s, stuttering synths, Auto-Tune vocals, glitch sounds, skittering percussions, and various sound effects and samples, all elements that highlight the rest of Revengeseekerz sonically. [22] Unlike their past work, Remover makes hedonistic and braggadocio references, for example, "Shit was 03. 03 Bitch, I'm Avril Lavigne." [23] "Psychoboost" is a techno and dubstep track that features Danny Brown as a guest artist under high levels of distortion, where Remover reflects feelings of desire and dysphoria. [24] [14] [21]

"Star People", is a lush experimental hip hop track that takes a jerk-influenced tone [25] loaded with "cacophonous sounds and layers." [15] Inspired by George Michael's "Star People", [6] the track tones down in its second half with melodic vocals and guitar lines. [26] In its 90-second outro, vocalizations, broken glass sounds, and "fluttering bloops of fainty distorting synths" are featured. [14] "Experimental Skin", features Remover referring to themselves "as a shapeshifter of sorts" under an EDM beat. [27] "Angels in Camo", opening with a "heavenly stutter-choir," takes a hypertrap influence. [28] [29] "Dreamflasher", opens with a yawning harmonica and shows Remover lyrically on their success from their music, with people screaming their name and finding love from one who matters to them. [30] [29]

"Turn Up or Die", begins with distorted kicks reflecting hard style music and evolves into a dubstep drop, while containing an extensive use of atmospheric techno samples. [31] [21] "Dancing with Your Eyes Closed" is a hyperpop and house track featuring "videogame-like synth against a pulsing backbeat", [12] and a "squishy, danceable, electropop grooves" with denser production. [16] [32] "Fadeoutz", makes a contrast to the album's sounds with a softer approach on the guitar lines and vocal melodies, detailing Remover on where they're falling apart. [33] "Professional Vengeance", shows Remover's "own take on a quirky teeny bopper hit," but is layered with various video game sounds, then "deep fried in the FL Studio multitrack." [34] "Dark Night Castle", contains string layers and stuttering piano lines. [35] "Fadeoutz" and "Dark Night Castle" are both influenced from "techno-shaped post-hardcore." [14] The final track, "JRJRJR", shows Remover dealing with struggles with their past music, fanbase, and themselves while sampling their previous music. [36] [29] [10] Sonically, it is a hyperpop and rage track. [8]

Artwork

The album artwork for Revengeseekerz displays Remover kneeling with a cigarette in their mouth, while pressing a burning katana onto the ground. The album art was photographed in January 2025 during a photoshoot by Brendon Burton in Oxnard, California. [37] [6] During the photoshoot, a flame lasted approximately three seconds in each photograph according to Remover, and detailed their hair caught fire "probably fifty times." [6] "You can see in some of the photos, my hair, burnt to a crisp a little bit. I remember I came home, or we pulled up to some surf n turf spot, and I was just smelling like butane fire," Remover continued. [6]

Promotion and release

Remover announced Revengeseekerz on January 1, 2025. That day, they released its lead single, "JRJRJR", and an accompanying music video co-directed by Parker Corey, without prior announcement. [38] [39] [29] A second single, "Dancing with Your Eyes Closed", was released on February 26, 2025, with an accompanying music video co-directed by Noah Sellers. [40] The album cover for Revengeseekerz was revealed on March 17, 2025, and the tracklist was revealed on March 28. [41] Revengeseekerz released with no prior announcement on April 4, 2025, alongside a music video for "Angels in Camo," co-directed by Noah Sellers. [42] [16] Throughout April and May 2025, they embarked on the Turn Up or Die Tour across the United States and Canada. [43] The third single, "Dreamflasher", was released on September 12, 2025, along with its B-side "Audiostalker" featuring Lucy Bedroque. [44]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Needle Drop 9/10 [a]
Paste 9.1/10 [14]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [29]

Revengeseekerz received critical acclaim. Kieran Press-Reynolds of Pitchfork described the album as "some of the most all-out intense music [Jane Remover has] ever made". Press-Reynolds highlighted "Dark Night Castle" as a moment of "unhurried beauty", and stated that "Experimental Skin" sounded like Remover "recorded the song and then let five DJs tweak it out by jitter-clicking every button at once". He also felt that what made the songs on Revengeseekerz work so well is that they are "so carefully composed, so intentional, that every cyborgian burp and steel snare fits perfectly". [29] Matt Mitchell of Paste found Revengeseekerz to be Remover's "most straight-forward" album to date and stated that on the album Remover "presents a complicated, scornful world". Mitchell highlighted "annihilating techno blade against pitch-shifting vocals" on "Psychoboost", "gauzy, compressed melodies" on "Turn Up or Die", and "sweet vocalizations" on the outro of "Star People". He also described "JRJRJR" as "textbook Jane Remover", as well as naming "Professional Vengeance" as the tightest track on the album. [14]

Track listing

Revengeseekerz track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Twice Removed"3:59
2."Psychoboost" (featuring Danny Brown)4:04
3."Star People"4:19
4."Experimental Skin"5:00
5."Angels in Camo"3:41
6."Dreamflasher"3:44
7."Turn Up or Die"4:41
8."Dancing with Your Eyes Closed"3:50
9."Fadeoutz"3:20
10."Professional Vengeance"3:56
11."Dark Night Castle"4:18
12."JRJRJR"4:28
Total length:49:26
Physical release
No.TitleLength
13."Supernova" (featuring Funeral)3:04
Total length:52:30

Notes

Charts

Chart performance for Revengeseekerz
Chart (2025)Peak
position
US & Canadian College Radio Top 200 (NACC) [47] 65

Notes

  1. Specifically, Fantano rated the album a "light to decent 9". [46]

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Video sources

Revengeseekerz at Discogs (list of releases)