Written by Toby Wilkins
It’s not a stretch to call Jane Remover one of the most talented musicians in the whole industry right now. Across their many aliases (the most notable of which being Jane Remover, Venturing, and Leroy) they tackle a multitude of genres and pull each off with an almost unimaginable hit rate. Specifically, Leroy is the home of their dariacore projects – that being the title of a trilogy of tapes released between 2021 and 2022, but also the name of the mashup-based genre they fall under, which they had a heavy hand in pioneering. To describe it in one word… overwhelming. But it’s also, in a way, the purest form of art, as they combine songs they love to create something entirely new.
Status update music (SUM), is Leroy’s first project since 2023’s Grave Robbing. However, fans have been kept well-fed with a steady stream of monthly singles throughout 2025 and 2026, most of which make up SUM’s 15-song tracklist, making it more of a compilation rather than a “proper” record. Opener ‘If You Think I’m a Bitch You Should Meet Jane Remover’ is the perfect entry point for this record, in that your opinion of it will basically dictate what you think of the entire thing. It’s an absolutely explosive, curb-stomping collage of everything from 2000’s R&B (Avant’s ‘Lie About Us’ makes an appearance), to girl-pop (Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Britney Spears vocals litter the length of the song), and 2020’s queer electronica (Charli xcx, Underscores, and, hilariously, Jane Remover themselves all being sampled). All these worlds meet at a perfect intersection, nothing feels out of place (largely because it’s hard to pinpoint a place), and, despite a glitchy, distorted beat, it isn’t that overpowering.
It’s hard to talk about songs individually on the project, as most of them follow a similar pattern; cool as hell samples picked from all over the musical spectrum (everything from K-Pop, to rock, video game sound effects, and even a song built entirely around close collaborator Danny Brown’s ‘Lift You Up’), stitched together with pinpoint perfection, over a crazy danceable rave beat. It would get repetitive going over every single one, but if I had to describe all the tracks at once, they sound like how it feels to plug something in correctly on the first go. The most interesting moments come on the record’s final two tracks, ‘In Every Lifetime (Together Like This)’ and ‘Summer Fling,’ which contain entirely new vocals from Jane, something that, to my knowledge, has never happened on a Leroy track before. The latter, a cover of Melodic Chaotic’s song of the same name, is perhaps the record’s most accessible track, with a cleaner, twinkly instrumental, and vocals that are sugary sweet. If Leroy released songs on streaming, there’s no doubt that this track would be a genuine smash hit.
Is SUM Jane Remover’s best project? It just might be. From a technical perspective, it most certainly is; combining all these musical worlds into something so cohesive deserves as much praise as possible. Dariacore just feels a bit much like a novelty genre that I imagine many would find it difficult to say it’s better than something like Revengeseekerz. However, it’s practically undeniable that Jane Remover is on a run that most artists would kill for.
