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Census Designated (2023) - Jane Remover, Dir. Quadeca
#jane remover#census designated#dedair#ambience#midwest gothic#ethel cain#liminal#cinematography#soundcloud#southern goth aesthetic#paper towns#poetry#sharp objects#music video#horror#underscores#quadeca
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underscores and Jane Remover for office magazine
(8/26/2023, source: 1 | 2)
#music posting#people posting#underscores#jane remover#april harper grey#office magazine#wallsocket#census designated
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"Census Designated", Jane Remover
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cream soda
#jane remover#census designated#music#jane remover fanart#art#my art#artwork#digital illustration#artists on tumblr
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holding a leech - jane remover
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Video, Jane Remover
#transsexual#trans#dog#transsexualism#transfem#transmasc#mtf#transgender#ftm#jane remover#census designated#chase me
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listen to census designated rn or im going to lose my mind
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Jane Remover - Census Designated (Long review)
i wrote this after reaching 100 followers on aoty. The AOTY version can be found here if u wanna read it on there.
Hey! Thank you all for your support on my reviews thus far. Bangers2 started out as an impulsive Tumblr blog where I'd post a song a day, but that got stale pretty quickly so I ended up on AOTY. And it was scary at first (I once got flamed by like 3 people for making an "I hardly know her" joke...that was nice) but I think in the past couple months I've sort of found a community over here. The album that REALLY got me into music spaces and encouraged me to start sharing my opinions / analyses was this one!
Census Designated (or Census/CD, as I'll probably refer to it throughout this review) has been pivotal to my life since before it came out. I first discovered Jane through her feature on underscores' Wallsocket (an album which I'll probably review in more detail soon), where I instantly fell in love with her vocals. I checked out the title track about a week after it dropped and thought it was so fresh. There was a unique sort of pain to the song which really resonated with me at the time, and I kept it on loop for weeks. I was so damn lonely and depressed from October to like...February, and found a lot of solace in Census, especially "Holding a Leech," my personal SOTY of 2023. For the first time in my life I tried to get mental health support, and this album made communicating my feelings and circumstances a lot easier. It gave a voice to what I'd kept buried all my life.
On the other side of all the shit I went through, I still listen to this album a lot. Sure, it takes me back to some of the worst times in my life, but the genius of the production and songwriting is undeniable. I can’t stop coming back to it, even though it breaks my heart. I truly and genuinely believe that Census Designated is a masterpiece.
Census Designated is the sophomore album by Jane Remover, an artist who got her start making electronic music (Frailty, Dariacore, etc.). However, Census is a straight-up rock album, with loud guitars and harsh walls of noise. The lyrics are just as harsh as the production, with fictional stories of abusive relationships, violence, and a lot of body horror. With that being said, despite how much I love Census, I wouldn’t recommend this album to anybody…unless they’re in the right headspace for it. If you go in expecting “Frailty 2,” you will come out with ear fatigue and a hefty dose of nightmare fuel.
WITH THAT BEING SAID. The harshness of the album - all of its jarring static and blood-curdling screaming - is balanced by incredibly catchy melodies and a lot of introspection. Jane’s vocals are really great - a huge improvement since Frailty and even the venturing tracks. She has an incredibly smooth voice, and I can tell she’s influenced by a lot of pop vocalists like Ariana. I'm a vocal technique nerd. I bet SHE's so lucky to have a voice like that.
Vocals aside, I love the instrumentations on here too! She uses the harsh noise and heavy guitars to further the turmoil in each track. They’re all explosive songs, starting out quite calm and eventually building up to a huge release towards the end. It works out really well; on songs like “Holding a Leech,” you can feel the slight numbness in her voice on the first chorus turn into loud, unimaginable desperation by the end of the song, as she chokes out “how much longer ‘till I’m truly alone?”
ALSO!! The lyrics are SO good. She's said in interviews that none of what she talks about really happened to her, they're just abstractions of feelings she had been having. I think her way of articulating these feelings is so evocative. You can't take anything here at face value, so you really have to Analyze for the lyrics to make sense. Even without reading them over and over, I feel like, for me personally, there was a clear feeling that each line evoked, and it's so cool how open ended so much of it is. My favourite lyrics are on the title track, which is fuelled with so much anger and pain that it's sort of overwhelming. Jane said the song is about the music industry and how it takes advantage of young artists. Despite not relating to that at all, I ~felt~ a lot of what she was saying, and saw myself in a lot of it.
Census Designated feels like a cautionary tale; a story of the absolute worst case scenario. Nightmare after nightmare. Boiling water being poured on hands. Jaws being broken. Cars being crashed. Desperation. Begging for forgiveness. Throwing up. Waking up feeling fine, despite it all. In the absence of the physical pain, there lies a pit in my stomach as I listen to these songs. A sense of uneasiness. A deep, unexplainable sorrow.
This album will not save your life. Not like Nurture or Sweetener or any of those albums where you come out of it feeling like everything will be okay. No, this is an album that is harrowing. So intensely horrifying, that you might start to recognize that something is wrong if you resonate with it. And there's something so important about that. I can't say that Census Designated /saved/ my life; but it did change it. And for that, it's become one of my favourite albums of all time.
...And a 10/10.
Thanks for reading. If you've ever felt like I did, I just want to say that everything will be okay, and this, too, shall pass. You will survive. You will find a way out of it. I believe in you. Keep going.
#yup#bangers2 long review#jane remover#music review#music opinions#album review#census designated#music#Spotify
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jane remover fanart, based on census designated promo pictures taken by brendon burton (@burtoo)
originally finished 10-19-2023
#my art#fanart#jane remover#census designated#finished#2023#hi this is the beginning of me being back. posting 2 other finished things and sketchbook + doodle dumps by the end of the week#tagging the photographer bc i want ppl to check out his other work ^__^ mr burton if you see this thank you for working w jane and quad!!!#i have another piece based on scrapyard promo pics thats posting on the 4th 🏃♂️
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Happy one year anniversary to Census Designated!
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(looking in mirror) op are you okay you've listened to Census Designated 10 times this week
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explosive (census designated)
(character uses they/them pronouns)
#mynameiscomic#itsonlycomic#my art#furry#furry anthro#furry art#anthro#furry character#furry fandom#fan art#original character#oc#i mean it's my oc but it references a music artist so technically fan art#jane remover#census designated
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jane remover - census designated
official music video video directed & edited by Quadeca makeup by Ava Taconelli written & produced by Jane Remover mixed by Kayla Reagan mastered by Hector Vega mgmt & A&R Jesse Taconelli © / ℗ 2023 deadAir
#music posting#jane remover#census designated#music video#indie#deadair#shoegaze#rock#alternative rock#an original thought-tracing production
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Yo trans girl hyperpop maestro "Jane Remover" just switched genres and dropped a rlly ethereal rock record called "Census Designated" and you should all listen to it cuz it's like one of the most experimental awesome rock records I've heard in ages.
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Some pictures I found on Pinterest that are, for lack of a better word, Census-coded.
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" All i want you to do is chase me "
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