(And thats all without mentioning their various side projects, released under the pseudonyms Leroy and Venturing.)
I was like, You know what, let me maketwoalbums.
The album, Remover explains, flowed out of them in a way that felt almost divinely preordained.
Photo: Brendon Burton
I had entire songs in my head, they say.
I was like, Oh, I need this song to be exactly five minutes.
This is how it starts, this is how it ends.
Photo: Athena Merry
And thats exactly what I did.
I almost felt like a psychic.
Was the process of making the album cathartic in any way, then?
What was the rage they were trying to release in the process of making it?
I mean, there are times where Im mad at literally everyone, they share.
Im mad at my fans and my contemporaries and Im mad at the people in my life.
Im mad at all my relationships.
Its like I can never just be mad at one thing.
When Im mad at one thing, Im mad at everything all the time.
Remover pauses to collect their thoughts, running a hand through their shaggy black curls.
Obviously, I dont consider myself an angry personI dont even act upon my anger most of the time.
I feel like this album is a result of bottling everything upits a release.
Thats probably healthy, I suggest; it sounds like something a therapist would recommend.
That I wouldnt know, they deadpan.
A year ago, you could have looked at Removers career and traced a trajectory of increasing maturity.
Mind you, I was like 19.Revengeseekerz,on the other hand, deliberately complicates that narrative.
Compared to my first album, that whole albums about being a kid.
Its definitely shifted in some way.
It feels well-timed, too.
I feel like for a long time, I was taking myself way too seriously, they say.
I think I felt like I was somehow better than the sound I had come up with.
But at the end of the day, who cares?
I like that sound.
So I was like, Let me just embrace it rather than trying to keep fighting it.
Because that wasnt getting me anywhere.
I feel like Im just way more confident than I used to be, they say.
I think it just comes with getting older.
(Naturally, Remover took the video editing process into their own hands.)
It feels like a neat analogy for where Remover is at more broadly.
But now, Ive realized that this music genuinely is a product of the internet.
I can celebrate things now, rather than worrying, they say.
My mom used to always be like, This could all go away tomorrow.
Dont put all your eggs in one basket.
But its like, girl, I have no other skills other than this.
Remover breaks into a final, full-throated laugh.
Now, I finally know I was destined to do this.
