21-year-old indie darling Jane Remover has announced a record under the name "Venturing," which she explains is a fictional indie rock band from South Dakota that was active in the 90s and early aughts. The bio for Venturing on RateYourMusic reads as follows:
Venturing is a fictional Indie Rock band created by Jane Remover that formed in small-town Britton, South Dakota (pop. 1,215), a brief 15-minute drive from another small town in South Dakota: Newark. However, Jane Remover hails from the larger, more well-known Newark, New Jersey.
The quintet Venturing was supposedly active from 1990 to 2002 and consisted of the fictional members Melanie (vocals), Fawn (guitar), Daisy (guitar), Barney (bass), and Steve (drums). The band was fairly well-known in the Great Plains / Upper Midwest region, gaining recognition with a couple of unspecified hit songs.
Their musical repertoire includes songs that reference South Dakota. “Aberdeen Dream Sequence” references Britton’s nearest city, Aberdeen, South Dakota, while “(605) 114-1010” cites South Dakota’s area code.
According to lore, Jane Remover (within this fictional piece, using the alias Violet) “discovered” this group when she found one of the band’s T-shirts in her mom’s room. Violet occasionally uploads some of the band’s hard-to-find back catalog as she locates individual songs, in part by purportedly crowdsourcing through her followers. However, all of the band’s releases are, in fact, the work of Jane Remover.
Venturing's debut record Ghostholding is due on Valentine's Day via deadAir. Despite the confusion sparked by the lore, the record was made entirely by Jane herself. The first three singles, "Famous girl", "Halloween", and "Sister" have already been released. Listen to the singles and view the full tracklist below.
Tracklist
1. “Play my guitar”
2. “No sleep”
3. “Believe”
4. “Guesthouse”
5. “Spider”
6. “Recoil”
7. “Something has to change”
8. “Dead forever”
9. “We don’t exist”
10. “Sick/relapse”
11. “Famous girl”
12. “Halloween”
13. “Sister”
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