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For DIY, Wright described "Shoot to Kill, Kill Your Darlings" as a "woozy Beck lollop". Its lyrics question why a rich kid would want to join the military. [25] [27] "Horror Movie Soundtrack" is written from the viewpoint of a dying soldier atop a twangy, faint, and dissonant guitar. Shutler described it for Dork as "creeping" and "uneas[y]" and Kim called it "lyrically terse, vague and pained". [16] [28] The following "Old Money Bitch" is an upbeat, synth-layered, electropop song about the title character being ruthlessly bullied for trying to hide her billionaire upbringing. [2] [10] [16] The seven-minute "Geez Louise" shifts from a metal, industrial rock, and punk rant to an alt-country passage with hand claps, then a subdued acoustic guitar section and a shoegaze climax. In it, Underscores and Henhouse! discuss how Spanish colonization phased out the traditional third Filipino gender in favor of Catholicism. [10] [16] [25] "Seventyseven Dog Years" is a Midwest emo song with a minimalist club beat. [10] It features body horror imagery alongside the following "Uncanny Long Arms", [14] which has a power pop guitar climax adapted from the Fishmonger track "Kinko's Field Trip 2006". [16] [29] Anthony Fantano described the closing track "Good Luck Final Girl" as a "folksy tune [where] elegant and shimmering strings quickly melt away [into a] bare, naked, stark outro". [30] Shutler called it escapist. [28]

Promotion and release

Underscores performing in Washington, D.C., during the Hometown Tour (2023) Underscores @ union stage.jpg
Underscores performing in Washington, D.C., during the Hometown Tour (2023)

Underscores posted a "Wallsocket era" trailer and statement to social media on April 21, 2023. [8] [31] Websites of a fictional Wallsocket, Michigan, town then began appearing, such as an official town site, a "Moms of Wallsocket" forum, and a pizza restaurant serving as a merchandise giveaway. [9] [10] [16] They were part of a promotional ARG, which fans shared information about through Discord. [9] [10]

Wallsocket's lead single "Cops and Robbers" was released on May 3, 2023, alongside an announcement that she had signed to Mom + Pop Music. [8] [31] Underscores followed it with a second single, "You Don't Even Know Who I Am", on June 7. [19] That month, she announced the North American leg of a supporting Hometown Tour, which she began on July 13. [18] [19] Before her sets, she handed out pizza boxes with a misspelled URL of the restaurant, leading to an unreleased song. [10] On July 12, Underscores officially announced the Wallsocket album and its release date alongside a third single, "Locals (Girls Like Us)", which features Gabby Start. [18] [20] Another single, "Old Money Bitch", was released on August 16. [32] The music videos for the singles were directed by her friend Ayodeji and shot using iPhones. [23]

Wallsocket was released on September 22, 2023, via Mom + Pop Music and Corporate Rockmusic. [21] That month, Underscores announced a European leg of the Hometown Tour, subtitled "The Away Games", which she began on November 30. [13] [33] Dates for Japan and Australia, which began on May 24, 2024, were revealed in March. [34] [35] On May 28, Underscores released the single "My Guy (Corporate Shuffle)", [36] which was included alongside three other tracks on Wallsocket (Director's Cut), a deluxe edition of the album. [37]

Critical reception

Wallsocket
Wallsocket Album Cover.jpeg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 22, 2023 (2023-09-22)
Genre
Length54:55
Label
Producer
Underscores chronology
Boneyard AKA Fearmonger
(2021)
Wallsocket
(2023)
Director's Cut cover
Wallsocket (Director's Cut) album cover.jpg
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Line of Best Fit 9/10 [16]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [25]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [27]
Dork Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [28]
The Needle Drop 8/10 [38] [c]

Wallsocket received positive reviews from publications. For DIY, Lisa Wright called it "the sound of an artist operating entirely [and] brilliantly on their own terms." [27] The Line of Best Fit's Matthew Kim deemed it her masterpiece: "if it doesn't propel her into indie stardom, we've all done something wrong." [16] Anthony Fantano thought it was one of the year's most daring, varied, and catchy records, [40] and the Star Tribune 's Ethan Lambert thought it was among the hyperpop scene's strongest recent albums. [41]

Many critics considered its production and composition an improvement over Fishmonger, though some thought they were occasionally too chaotic. Steve Erickson of Slant Magazine complimented the album's "bratty, intentionally jarring spin on hyperpop" as "eclecticism for its own sake". He thought Underscores had noticeably matured her sound and perspective. [25] Likewise, Wright thought Wallsocket had substantially evolved from Fishmonger's bedroom production, [27] and Lambert elaborated that it "expertly fus[ed] glitchy electronic production with alternative rock". He believed the album was very catchy, [41] alongside Kim, who highlighted the choruses of structured pop songs like "Cops and Robbers" and "Old Money Bitch". Kim concluded that the album worked just as well on shuffle than in order, and praised it as a continuation of the eclecticism Underscores had become known for. [16] Similarly, Dork's Ali Shutler thought Wallsocket thrived on its big swings. [28] Conversely, Wright thought that its sharp turns sometimes undermined the softer moments and that "Horror Movie Soundtrack" was very sudden. [27] Citing passages of "Uncanny Long Arms", the drums of "Seventyseven Dog Years", and the end of "Shoot to Kill, Kill Your Darlings", Fantano said that some tracks were "a little too much", as they were too saturated with volume and color. [42]

Critics enjoyed the pairing of musical ideas with a character-driven narrative. The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber believed that the album used production as a storytelling tool by "dramatizing a world gone weird." [24] Jordan Darville of The Fader stated that, on the album, Underscores had refined her "all in" approach to transgressing genres by "let[ting] the narratives — sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating — shine through." [17] Kim argued that the album's broad sonic palette was not due to self-indulgence and that Underscores used musical ideas to characterize each resident in a "remarkably adept" way. He thought each character had a distinctive voice: "every emotion [is] conveyed wholly through a varied set of sounds and writing styles." [16] Otherwise, Erickson compared the album to Emma Seligman's Bottoms (2023) and the high school horror films of Jennifer Reeder. He thought they all recounted the lives of ordinary characters while subverting genre tropes. [25]

Year-end lists

Wallsocket appeared in the top 15 spots of the best albums of 2023 lists of The Atlantic, Pedestrian , and The Needle Drop. It also appeared 33rd on Slant Magazine's list, and in an unranked list of the year's best electronic albums by Paste.

PublicationListRankRef.
The Atlantic 10 Best Albums of 20237 [24]
Slant Magazine 50 Best Albums of 202333 [43]
Paste 25 Best Electronic Albums of 2023 [44]
Pedestrian 50 Best Albums of 20234 [45]
The Needle Drop Top 50 Albums of 202313 [46]

Track listing

All tracks are written and produced by Underscores (April Harper Grey) except where noted.

Wallsocket track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Cops and Robbers"  4:25
2."Locals (Girls Like Us)" (featuring Gabby Start)
  • Grey
  • Gabriel O'Leary
  • Grey
  • O'Leary
4:18
3."Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"  4:07
4."You Don't Even Know Who I Am"  4:04
5."Johnny Johnny Johnny"  4:05
6."Shoot to Kill, Kill Your Darlings"  5:04
7."Horror Movie Soundtrack"  3:52
8."Old Money Bitch"  4:05
9."Geez Louise" (featuring Henhouse!)
  • Grey
  • Henson Popa
  • Grey
  • Popa
7:20
10."Seventyseven Dog Years"  4:35
11."Uncanny Long Arms" (featuring Jane Remover)
  • Grey
  • Remover
  • Grey
  • Remover
5:26
12."Good Luck Final Girl"  3:28
Total length:54:49
Wallsocket (Director's Cut) track listing
No.TitleLength
13."My Guy (Corporate Shuffle)"3:34
14."Northwest Zombie Girl"2:52
15."CCTV"8:01
16."Stupid (Can't Run from the Urge)"3:04
Total length:72:26

Notes

Personnel

Credits are adapted from Underscores's website and the liner notes of Wallsocket. [37] [47]

Release history

Release dates and format(s) for Wallsocket
RegionDateFormat(s)LabelEditionRef.
VariousSeptember 22, 2023
Original [48]
June 28, 2024
  • Streaming
  • digital download
  • LP
Deluxe [49]

Notes

  1. Underscores called the genre "officially dead" in a 2023 NME interview, [9] but clarified with Paste that "the mentality of trying to create something new that hasn't been heard before has not died". [10]
  2. Underscores noted with Paste and NME that although she did not perceive Wallsocket as a concept album, she agreed that it was one. [9] [10]
  3. Specifically, Fantano rated the album a "decent to strong 8". [39]

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