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If abyss angel has a million fans, then I am one of them. If abyss angel has ten fans, then I am one of them. If abyss angel has only one fan then that is me. If abyss angel has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against abyss angel, then I am against the world.

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dave bayley wants me dead personally

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Fear & Delight by The Correspondents is Gay!

requested by anon

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Category is : tall, soft-spoken bassists

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back again drawing this bingus 🙄😳

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Some simple Daves

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It’s so funny listening to that song now because it’s both aged amazingly and aged horribly. Mostly horribly though. Mostly horribly.

it's so wild that the best lyric in pop music history ("tell your boyfriend / if he says he's got beef / that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fuckin scared of him") and the worst lyric in history ("do the hellen keller and talk with yo hips") are both from the same song ("DONTTRUSTME" by 3OH!3). just. crazy how that works

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ga fans be like rn

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Jane remover speaks to my brain it’s like she makes music just 4 me, the way her songs are executed make me feel like I’m actually living the song, it’s quite weird I’ve never had such a connection with someone’s art and I feel like an obsessive teen who just discovered their favorite band lmfao jane remover you deserve a hug <3333333 ilyyyyy I appreciate ur brain and art so much

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Cole's album of the day, day 3

Blue Sky Noise by Circa Survive

Circa Survive is by far my favorite post hardcore band, and I absolutely adore this album. Anthony's voice sounds so great in this one, all the songs are just fantastic, and I'm a sucker for anything where the songs fade into each other.

Favorites: Fever Dreams, Glass Arrows, Get Out

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Cole's album of the day, day 2

Get to Heaven by Everything Everything

Look!!! Look how cool the cover art is!!! Anyway, Everything Everything is an indie band from the UK with a really unique sound, and this is my favorite album by them.

Favorites: Blast Doors, The Wheel, Fortune 500

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Cole's album of the day, day 1

Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life

It’s a pretty long shoegaze/alternative/rock album. It’s slow, and it’s one of the saddest albums I’ve listened to. That said, it’s also one of my favorites. I absolutely love the moody vibes, guitar, anguished vocals… And while a lot of things are long they have these good buildups and satisfying (or soul crushing) drops that I think are very worth it. yeah, good album

Favorites: black metal records, bloodhail, hunter

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its still you

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I GOT WAY TOO FAMOUS !

open 4 better quality

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my personal little masterpost of cute jane remover and quadeca interactions/mentions/etc because i've been wanting them to collab for forever

the clip above is from the backlight podcast's interview with jane it's a good watch

also you can't add multiple video files to a post so here's a link to quad talking about wanting to collab with jane in a hivemind video

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census designated - review

//content warning: discussion of depression/suicide/self-harm/dysphoria

census designated is in my top 3 albums of all time. i would give it a 10/10, but i think that rating music with numbers is stupid.

census designated is the sophomore album of jane remover, an artist who had originally broken into the music scene in 2021 with the seminal hyperpop EP, teen week. she then proceeded to release frailty later that year, a face-melting and depressing emo/hyperpop/edm fusion, which is another one of my favorite albums of all time.

needless to say, census designated is a pretty large departure from her source material, but one of the most positive changes i've seen in an artist's material ever. it trades in frailty's twinkly, edm-inspired vibe for a more acoustic and shoegazey style, while still retaining all of the things that made jane's music amazing in the first place. it features crackling, wailing walls of noise and basslines interlaced with screams and similar digital glitching effects to frailty; the hip-hop style drums used in frailty are swapped out for more acoustic, natural-sounding drums and the synths are much more warm and organic, fitting perfectly into the atmosphere of the rest of the album.

the tracks on census designated are on the longer side, ranging from 4 and a half minutes to almost 9. normally, seeing lots of long tracks on an album worries me as sometimes it can result in a lack of substance; this was most certainly not the case for this album. the long playtime makes room for bleaker, quieter moments building up into ear-splitting, astronomically cathartic breakdowns and climaxes. census designated effortlessly weaves together bedroom pop, shoegaze, and harsh noise into a varied and oppressive but beautifully blended soundscape for the entirety of the album. walls of warm synths and glitchy audio makes way for droning, feedback-riddled guitar melodies and minimal basslines.

the way that this album is able to convey the bitterness, desperation, anger, and hopelessness that are present in mental illness and dysphoria is something that i have seen in few other pieces of media. akin to uboa's the origin of my depression and giles corey's self-titled, census designated paints a visceral and vivid picture of depression, suicidal ideation, and struggling with one's identity, through both its lyrical content and sound. as someone who personally has struggled and is struggling with these things, this album has been unbelievably cathartic for me. all of the desperation and anger that jane funneled into this album is made into this palpable, dreamily vivid experience. a great example of this is the first ~20 seconds of video, a deafening wall of guitar, screams, frantic drums, and synths. during moments like this, jane also used a noisy sort of glitching effect to convey this complete collapse, this almost inability for the music to even stay within its bounds, breaking down into a messy, roiling sea of noise; a feeling that a lot of people who struggle with mental illness can relate to. this is then followed up with a bleak and soulful buildup until the eventual climax towards the end. despite this being a common song structure and theme throughout the album, it's re-engineered and done in a different way in each song, fully different from all the others; each song also discusses different topics, such as toxic relationships, going unnoticed in life, self-harm, hopelessness, the music industry, among other things. the lyrical content is vague enough for the listener to project their experiences onto it, but still personal enough for them to relate to jane's own experiences. there's this dark twinge of body-horror/cannibalism-themed metaphors for intimacy/sex/attraction ("biting chunks out of my face", "arm candy falling into his lap / take a bite") which jane herself said was inspired by horror movies that she had been watching at the time. anyone who has ever been in love, in a shitty relationship, or been ignored by the people around them will find the lyrics immediately relatable and impactful, although it's still enjoyable regardless.

the fact that jane remover was able to transition from terminally- online, attention-deficit digicore and hyperpop (which i still love, don't get me wrong) to one of the best shoegaze/noise rock projects i've heard in years is amazing and really shows her unfettered creativity, musical ability, and capacity to blend together multiple genres into a beautiful, cohesive project.

overall, i highly recommend that anyone who enjoys this style of music gives this album a listen. in my opinion, it's a masterpiece, and if you give it a try, you might think so too.

LINKS TO ALBUM ON BANDCAMP AND SPOTIFY BELOW

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