Song You Need: Jane Remover evolves beyond hyperpop with “Royal Blue Walls”
thefader.comdltzk has officially changed their stage name to Jane Remover, and the 18-year-old leaves a discography still worth getting excited about.
2021's Teen Week was a watershed achievement in the hyperpop/digicore that, despite the artist's misgivings, still shines with how it ambitiously collides genres in service of unvarnished teenage ennui.
Frailty, their debut album released the same year, was a huge leap forward in songwriting, wringing out the tsunami of rave and glitch-inspired sonics and structuring them around more surreal lyrical imagery and guitars – shrouded in lo-fi tape effects, shredded to pop-punk perfection, you name it. "Royal Blue Walls" is one of two new songs released today to announce Jane Remover's name change, and appropriately, the song muses on the process of renewal in a hostile world: "Fourteen, I told myself that / At the turn of the decade I'd call it quits," they sing, "Sixteen, I told myself that / If we wanna keep it off, we've gotta get our act together." Over a reef of shimmering emo guitars, Jane wrestles with their own ghosts as well as the very real monster next door with a gun collection and an appreciation for TV that tells him to fear people like Jane.
The zig-zaginess of Jane's previous work is here, along with an almost Britpop-y appreciation for a good cathartic moment which the song accomplishes no less than two distinct times.
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