Frailty (Jane Remover album)

Frailty is the debut studio album by the American musician Jane Remover. It was released by DeadAir Records on November 12, 2021, under Remover's former name Dltzk, before they changed their stage name in 2022. Remover began recording the album in their childhood bedroom in New Jersey halfway through their senior year of high school and worked on it during their summer vacation. They produced the entire album themselves using a music production software and an acoustic guitar. They were inspired by numerous video game soundtracks, musicians, and the New Jersey setting for material on the record. They intended the album to sound fuzzy, like a video game soundtrack for the Nintendo DS, and achieved this by using a bitcrusher.

Music critics described Frailty as being a wide variety of genres, such as electronic, emo, glitch pop, indie rock, digicore, shoegaze, indietronica, and progressive pop, and felt it was influenced by a myriad of other genres. Nearly every track is built around a guitar and the album employs distortion, yearnful vocals, and synthesizers in its soundscape. Frailty is a coming of age record that focuses on adolescent feelings, personal struggles, and fleeting time. Its artwork is a grainy and JPEG-compressed screenshot of a house in Oklahoma Remover took from Google Street View while making the album. Frailty was promoted by three singles—"How to Lie", "Pretender", and "Search Party"—throughout 2021.

Frailty received critical acclaim and widened the size of Remover's audience; music critics had particular praise for the album's blend of genres and styles. Frailty was placed in year-end lists of best music by Pitchfork, the online music critic Anthony Fantano, and Paste. Both Paste and Pitchfork also included it in their mid-decade lists of best music. Since its release, Remover has distanced themselves from Frailty and considers it the work of another person, due to their gender transition. This led to a more serious artistic approach on their following album, Census Designated (2023).