Forget Your Own Face

Forget Your Own Face is the sixth studio album by Canadian noise pop duo Black Dresses. It was released on February 14, 2022, exactly one year after the release of their previous album Forever in Your Heart,and is the second album released by the duo since their announced disbandment in May 2020. With the release of Forever in Your Heart, the duo clarified that they had nonetheless not reunited as a band, and The Fader described Forget Your Own Face as a continuation of the their "not-reunion". Released under Blacksquares Records,the album was preceded by the Patreon-only release of the song "u_u2" on February 1 Musically, Forget Your Own Face is an industrial noise pop album, and contains features of hyperpop, industrial hip hop, dream pop and screamo. The album is dark and angry in tone, featuring criticism of cultural appropriation, the societal backlash against trans people and contemporary pop culture,as well as disses towards RuPaul and Travis Barker.According to Hannah Jocelyn of Pitchfork, Black Dresses' antagonism towards Barker is fueled by a fear of the commodification of hyperpop pushing the progenitors of the genre offline.