#8 - Jane Remover - "Flash in the Pan"
Jane’s catalog is an exquisite corpse, emphasis on exquisite. Her witches brew of sounds is almost always intoxicating, from dariacore to digital shoegaze to drum’n’breakdowns. “Flash in the Pan” breaks down and rewires sonic particles like she’s trying to reveal a new chemical element. There’s angelic K-pop melodies, sexy drill’s tickling percussion; everything crests into a 1000-degree alt-rock blaze. What elevates it beyond just a stew of sounds is how she sprinkles it with concrete storytelling. It’s a tale of delirious yearning filtered through a trip on the NJ Transit, from 30th Street through Newark Penn Station, with a piercing image of her “laying on the tracks at Metropark Station, waiting on you to come save my life.” And unlike so much so-called “genre-fusing” music in Spotify’s “Anti-Pop” playlists, the hook is anthemic yet endearingly original, a playful producer-brained taunt: “P-pretty boy said I was just a flash in the pan… I could take her flow if I can't take her man.” The Periodic Table of Jane keeps expanding with unknown gems and new precious minerals.
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