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i feel like she’s the artist who I’m most locked on the same wavelength with right now. everything that she releases I'm super into. I first heard about her years ago when a friend sent me homeswitcher off of her first project (previously released under a now defunct alias) but I didn’t really have her on my radar until 2021’s Frailty. songs like your clothes and movies for guys off that album fuse together so many sounds from rock, emo/pop punk, electronic/dance, and experimental music in a way that still feels cohesive.
since then she’s been a bit of a sonic chameleon. her second album Census Designated is like pop hooks and song structures over noise rock. the track Video is especially haunting and the title song is explosive while not having any drums, just crushing waves of noise, guitars, and her voice. this year she's already released a shoegaze/grunge album under her Venturing alias that’s fantastic and very 90s rock inspired, and her third Jane Remover album drops in a month or so, the lead single JRJRJR is probably going to me my most listened to song this year by a long shot.
outside of her main albums she's got an electronic mashup/remix alias, some dancefloor ready bangers under her main name, songs that are basically disney channel pop tracks over drill/rock fusion, and tracks that draw from latin music like bachata. she's one of the most versatile artists in the game rn and i'm loving all of it.
Mar 4, 2025
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so many hyperlinks love this post! I really like JR but nothing hits like her first two dariacore projects for me which now I see are off Spotify???
Mar 4, 2025
worldonfire they're still on soundcloud thankfully but i dont think the spotify uploads were ever legitimate
Mar 4, 2025
royallmonarch I purchased them on band camp so I felt less bad about listening to the bootleg spotify versions lol I miss having them for convenience sake but hey at least they’re albums that are fun to listen to in full
Mar 4, 2025
pisces this was supposed to be in response to your ask but it got unlinked in my drafts 😔
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in one release she went from digicore posterchild to grungy shoegaze diva and she wears it well. a lot of production from TAGABOW on this which someone else rec'd. the walls of sound across this album are brutal and her delicate vocals are gutwrenching and occasionally jagged
Jun 13, 2024
Big Jane fan, so anything she drops I’m all in. I think it’s cool that she constantly changes her name and just makes whatever she wants. She was floating on this one. Loving it.
Mar 23, 2025
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rlly good. she is a hyper pop god that has gone thru some evolution since the peak of hyper pop but is circling back in a more evolved way.
Apr 9, 2025
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I consume a lot of music regularly, and a huge part of keeping a fresh diet of new listens going is having enough sources of recommendations that aren’t an algorithm that either 1) reinforces your existing listening patterns, keeping you stagnant in your tastes, or 2) platforms whoever paid enough to push their product to the top, serving you something that may not inherently be of inferior quality, but may not align with your tastes, may not be exciting beyond just being a new release, and realigns your current listening habits to be more in line with what the average user on the platform is also listening to — which socially might have benefits but which creates a homogeneity of consumption that can become bland since you’re listening to something really just because it’s the next product on the assembly line to have its public moment and not because anything about the music actually captured your attention. the current landscape of streaming is designed to keep you at an all you can eat buffet where you take what’s served to you, and as a result a lot of us have forgotten how to look at a menu and order.
so what does taking a more active role in your own music curation look like? for me, it’s meant not using streaming as a primary listening platform. I mostly use my local Apple Music library on my phone that I curate with the vestigial iTunes Library framework that’s still a part of Apple Music on my laptop. probably going to find an alternative soon since apple seems to be cutting integration progressively. I like this method because it forces me to choose what to sync to the limited storage space I have, forcing me to take inventory of what I actually listen to and what I can offload. the files I get are mostly from Bandcamp or Soulseek depending on whether it’s available for purchase or entirely unavailable online (as is the case for a lot of electronic music that was on vinyl only, which is where soulseek comes in clutch). I also have freedom here to change the ID3 tags to better sort and organize, rate, change track info, and track my own listening data.
Bandcamp and other music purchasing platforms are great because 1) it reshapes my relationship to music away from consumerism and back towards curation. I have to pay actual money for this thing now if I want to use it, so i’m forced to consider its value (usually i’ll stream a release first to gauge my interest). 2) having to spend money helps me to course out my meals so to speak, as i’ll buy a few releases i’ve accumulated in my cart over the month and cash out on Bandcamp Friday when 100% of my money is actually getting to the artist (TOMORROW IS BANDCAMP FRIDAY BTW!!!), and between purchases I can actually chew and savor and digest my last orders, they don’t get swept up in the deluge of new releases. my plate is full until i’m done and then I order more. also for the times of the year like now when new music isn’t coming out as regularly I take time to find older music that I would normally overlook while keeping up with new drops. currently very into early 80s/late 70s music with early digital production, kinda stuff that would evolve into synthpop and dance music.
so how do you know what to order? for me, I’m getting recs through trusted curation platforms. whether it’s bandcamp daily, y’all lovely folks here on PI.FYI, friends, or most importantly musicians who I follow on socials that share their tastes through posts, stories, playlists on steaming, interviews, etc. I like this last one especially because it’s kind of like a musical game of telephone. if I like an artist and they share their interests and influences it’s like every layer in this process is stretching my palate further from the sound that I was originally interested in and into a new territory that has some shared DNA but would never have been recommended to me by an algo because there’s no shared category or label between them, only the musical influence and interpretation of it made by the artist. as an example, I was a huge Skrillex stan, he signed KOAN Sound to his label, they collab with Asa who collabs with Sorrow, Sorrow takes huge influence from Burial, Burial makes some ambient adjacent stuff and takes huge influence from 90s rave music and drum and bass and 2000s rnb, now i’m listening to Brandy - All in Me, William Basinski, Aphex Twin, none on whom would get recommended by Spotify to me from Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.
LAST thing i’ll say — because in yappin about this i’m realizing how actually passionate about this subject I am: MAKE LISTS! playlists are cool, but they can flatten your music into vague categories of “vibes” and “aesthetics” and encourage picking one-off songs from artists that you never form an active audience relationship with. I make a practice of making my own year end lists of top 25 albums (plus some honorable recs and top individual songs) and keeping them in a notes doc that I regularly update and rearrange over the course of the year. this forces me to consider the actual relationship i’m forming with what i’ve ordered for myself. did I like it in the moment but it didn’t have staying power? is it slowly growing on me? it also encourages taking albums as a whole. maybe I liked one or two tracks a lot but the rest wasn't resonating. that’s ok! maybe I rank it lower but now i’ve actually taken time to consider it, it’s in my library, and maybe (quite a few cases for me) something I ranked like bottom 5 albums becomes a retroactive favorite from that year as my tastes evolve. also 25 albums to take with me from each year is really more than you'd think, i struggle sometimes to even find 25 that I formed a true connection with. I think the biggest thing the itunes era ruined that led into now is the single-ification of music, the ability to separate the hits from the deep cuts. albums are meant to be taken as a whole, and then once you've really sat with the whole you can find what actually stuck. even then I like to keep the whole around because soooo often i’ll write off a track that yeeeears later I come to love. trust the artist, they made it like they did for a reason.
aaannyyyywayy TLDR: get recs organically, be more active in deciding your listening patterns, fr*cken pay artists yall, trust the artist embrace the album, really consider what you consume
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