Jane Remover has a lot of names and a lot of schedules, and somehow none of that slows her down. The experimental pop auteur has spent the past year moving between alter-egos, posting tracks on SoundCloud, and playing festivals, and today she delivers her first proper Jane Remover single in a while: “Beauty Sleep.” The release comes after a busy stretch of releases under multiple names, and it marks a return to her own name for the first time since earlier this year.
From Headbanger to Beauty Sleep
Earlier this year, Jane Remover posted the tracks “Headbanger” and “Conversion 2” on SoundCloud. She also released music under the names Leroy and Venturing. Now comes “Beauty Sleep,” the first full single to carry her own name since then, out now on deadAir. The track picks up where those earlier releases left off, but it carries a distinct identity of its own — one that draws on the restless energy that has defined her recent run of work.
The track is a restless piece of music. It moves between sweetly melodic passages and sections that feel digitally warped, with effects stretching and twisting the sound in different directions. Some parts sound like Squarepusher remixing Brokencyde, and the reviewer means that as a compliment. It’s a dizzy, overwhelming piece of music.
The Video Breaks Out
The Brendon Burton-directed video matches the song’s restless energy. It starts with Jane Remover as a glamorous alien sealed inside a laboratory tube, then breaks out and takes a motorcycle to the beach. The jump from sterile lab to open road captures the song’s shift from contained vulnerability to sudden release.
The video’s visual language mirrors the track’s musical shifts. Where the music moves from gentle melody to digital distortion, the image moves from a sealed laboratory to an open motorcycle ride on the beach. That parallel is deliberate, and it gives the video a clear through-line even as its images keep changing.
What Makes Beauty Sleep Work
The strength of “Beauty Sleep” is how much it changes shape without losing its nerve. One moment the track is soft and exposed, the kind of melody that lands directly in the chest. The next moment it snaps into something hectic and digital, with effects bending the sound until it feels almost unrecognizable.
| Element | Character |
|---|---|
| Melodic sections | Sweet, exposed, vulnerable |
| Digital effects | Warped, stretched, chaotic |
| Comparison | Squarepusher remixing Brokencyde |
| Video | Glamorous alien to motorcycle ride |
That range is the whole point. The song doesn’t settle into one mood. It keeps changing direction, and the video follows that movement by jumping from a sealed lab tube to a motorcycle ride on the beach.
A Track Worth Hearing
“Beauty Sleep” is available now on deadAir. It arrives after a busy stretch of releases under multiple names.
The track holds together despite its constant motion. It’s a dizzy, overwhelming piece of music.
Jane Remover doesn’t get tired. That’s the only explanation.
See the video the story is built around at Stereogum.
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