Jane Remover: Revengeseekerz (2LP, orange vinyl)

Why you'll love it

This indie exclusive pressing comes on orange vinyl in a gatefold jacket, with a screen print on the blank fourth side. Jane Remover produced every second of it, Danny Brown guests on "Psychoboost," and Pitchfork's Kieran Press-Reynolds called it "some of the most all-out intense music" they have ever made.

This edition

Indie exclusive orange vinyl
2LP set in a gatefold jacket
Side D is a screen print of the letters "REV" from the hype sticker
13 tracks on three sides

About the album

Jane Remover spent 2024 opening for JPEGMafia on his Lay Down My Life tour, came home to Chicago and, in a rather sensible fit of pique, made a record about everything fame had done to them so far. Revengeseekerz scrapped two earlier attempts at a third album and went back to the digicore of 2021's Frailty, then turned the dials up: EDM drops, rage beats, house, hyperpop and hip-hop, with guitar on seven of the tracks. Nearly every song samples Remover's own older work, so the album keeps folding back on itself, and the sound effects come from places like Pokémon, The End of Evangelion and a Guitar Hero game.

The singles tell you where to start. "JRJRJR" is what Paste's Matt Mitchell called textbook Jane Remover; "Dancing with Your Eyes Closed" and "Dreamflasher" are the closest it gets to pop; "Dark Night Castle" gives you a breather that Pitchfork described as a moment of "unhurried beauty." Anthony Fantano scored it 9 out of 10. That year Remover also joined Turnstile's Never Enough tour, which tells you how far this kind of music now travels.

It is loud, dense and very clever about it. Play it on a decent system, ideally when the neighbours are out.