Underscores - Wallsocket (2023)
Underscores - Wallsocket (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 373 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 MB
54:49 | Full Scans Included | Hyperpop, Dubstep, Pop-Punk | Label: Mom+Pop
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 373 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 MB
54:49 | Full Scans Included | Hyperpop, Dubstep, Pop-Punk | Label: Mom+Pop
Underscores Wallsocket Review: Electrifyingly Unpredictable Tales of American Life. The songs flit from one style or tone to the next, mirroring the mental states of the singer’s characters. pril Harper Grey, a.k.a. Underscores, puts a bratty, intentionally jarring spin on hyperpop, with funk basslines, dubstep wobbles, and trap beats that at times feel like eclecticism for its own sake. On her second studio album, Wallsocket, the San Francisco-based singer, songwriter, and producer’s sound has noticeably matured. The songs are still youthful—“Locals (Girls Like Us)” and “Johnny Johnny Johnny” feature sing-along choruses that echo pep-rally cheers—but she sings from a comparably wizened POV. Wallsocket is written from the perspectives of troubled young characters, from a woman struggling with an illness that’s “as rare as it gets” to a girl being love-bombed by a pedophile. Themes of class resentment and alienation course through the album’s 12 songs: On “Shoot to Kill, Kill Your Darlings,” Grey wonders why a rich kid would want to join the military, while “Old Money Bitch” finds her sneering at the daughter of a billionaire who’s fallen on hard times.
Throughout, the songs on Wallsocket flit from one style or tone to the next, mirroring the mental states of Grey’s characters. The album’s most rock-oriented track, the brash “Cops and Robbers,” describes a bank teller who scams his customers to pay for his methamphetamine habit, proud that he can do so without “a ski mask and a gun.” The song’s frenetic pacing cleverly reflects both the man’s desperation and the effects of his vice.
“Geez Louise” begins as a punk rant, with Grey shouting the titular phrase over a racing beat, but the track quickly shifts into a slower, more subdued acoustic guitar-based section. Elsewhere, “Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” features a loop of a woman speaking the title accompanied by little else aside from Grey’s voice and some relaxed percussion and synthesizer before the proceedings are interrupted by blasts of noise and an unexpected harmonica solo.
Grey’s elaborate song structures and conceptual trappings harken back to ’70s art rock, but the situations she describes are specific to present-day life in America, particularly the sense that the country is backsliding into greater inequality. Wallsocket is the musical equivalent of films like Emma Seligman’s Bottoms or Jennifer Reeder’s high-school horror fantasias, as each relates ordinary characters’ lives while subverting genre tropes—in this case, Springsteen-style tales of escaping small towns, in the process lending the songs a similar mythic grandeur.
-Steve Erickson
Tracklist
1. Cops and robbers (04:26)
2. Locals (Girls like us) [with gabby start] (04:18)
3. Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (04:07)
4. You don't even know who I am (04:04)
5. Johnny johnny johnny (04:05)
6. Shoot to kill, kill your darlings (05:04)
7. Horror movie soundtrack (03:52)
8. Old money bitch (04:06)
9. Geez louise (with henhouse!) (04:06)
10. Seventyseven dog years (04:35)
11. Uncanny long arms (with Jane Remover) (05:26)
12. Good luck final girl (03:28)
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underscores / Wallsocket
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EAC extraction logfile from 19. September 2023, 1:41
underscores / Wallsocket
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD+-RW GA50N Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
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