Jane Remover : "status update music"

This album is listed under their pseudonym leroy, but I am referring to it as Jane Remover since that is what this project is; it's not dramatically different it should be acknowledged as such. Funny enough, the first track is called "If You think I'm a Bitch You should meet Jane Remover". It is still a glitched-out take of hyperpop that is rough around its dubstep-crunchy sound. They sample Miley Cyrus early in the song. "XO Tour Life" leans more on an early-2010 sound. The vocals have a more pop-punk sound. ome of the songs blended here are pretty clever. I can see why this is free, as it curtails the royalty issues. 

"I Did This For Us" samples Britney Spears, and mashes it up with Deftones. As with any electronic artist, when the focus is on hooks and melodic elements, it works well, but just throwing beats and belching robots at your ears is less effective. Even when it's more aggressive, like on "Crowdkilling 101". "Nothing Last Forever" feels more like something Snow Stripper might do.  A little more structure finds form here.  I get that chaos is this artist's thing, but I have heard it work to keep the hooks. Though this is less poppy than the average Jane Remover album. There are twists and turns with the dynamics. 

"Chase This Feeling" could almsot be a Charli XCX song, as the more dubstep-like elements are toned down. However, they need the samples to occupy the place vocals should sit. There are more video game sounds on this album. They build it up a bit like techno. "#BOYLETMEKNOW" is back into bleeping, churning beat friction. They try to get their milkshakes to bring some boys to the year on "The Summer I Turned Pretty". Things stay similarly glitched out for "Right Nowww". It's more experimental, but that does not stick when it comes to just making a dance floor banger.  The BPMs get carried away here. "Love Angel Music Baby"  has Miley Cyrus on some drugs asking the crowd to make out with one another. The dubstep spasms carry it away a bit. 

"I Belong to Nobody"  has lasers shooting over the blend of pop music being shaken into this mix. The melodies from these songs being sampled are often hidden under a layer of noise. Here it works pretty well , but at other points of the labum they could have stood to be less obscured. The more abrasive throb of "Get Ugly" is at least still able to groove. What they do gets funkier for "In Every Lifetime". "Summer Fling" lets the pop shine through the noise. I will give this one a 9, it's certainly intersting and catches a groove more often than not. 

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