#wallsocket (2023)

[catty-words]

wallsocket thought of the day: there exists an entire thesis in the first verse of "good luck final girl".

see, the album as a whole is very concerned with material comfort. the opener contains pointed disdain for the way institutions absorb your wealth after death, but it's very sardonic about the character taking advantage of the money for personal gain (when's the last time you saw someone with a ski mask and a gun, get on the inside / you gotta do it, gotta do it, gotta do it like me).

the intro of "locals (girls like us)" stringing together phrases like golden arches and pearly gates and private property and armsbodylegsfleshskinbonesinew kicks off the song on a very cynical note about the state of society. you're owned by the consumerism. doesn't your own body feel like a product being consumed sometimes? good luck!

everyone here is a poor kid right outta high school and the only option being to sell off your body to a greater cause that has already let you down and will stunt the course of your life in "shoot to kill, kill your darlings" and put my stuff on the curb whether or not you sell the estate and the horrific numbness of having to live in a ravaged world, might as well give it all up in "horror movie soundtrack" and positioning privileged people as the enemy while also feeling profound spite for them losing something worth having in the first place in "old money bitch".

all this culminates in a feeling that the people of wallsocket (and middle america more broadly) are doomed. it's morally bankrupt to reclaim the wealth of the few for yourself and it's laughably sad to renounce what wealth you do have and what are you gonna use 'your' money to buy anyway? crystal [meth]? your own body? well, in the first verse of "good luck final girl", our narrator chooses to use her money to buy a stranger breakfast. it's a futile gesture, ultimately - the stranger stops being around to accept the care - but. it does set our narrator off on her journey. whether or not it was worth taking is up for you to decide. no one's gonna do your job for you.

bleak, sure. but the music moved you. didn't it?

#wallsocket (2023) #underscores

[yourfavealbumisgender]

Wallsocket by Underscores is Aromantic!

requested by anon

#request #album #wallsocket #aromantic #aro #underscores #april harper grey #pop #rock #folk #2023

[reckonslepoisson]

Wallsocket, Underscores (2023)

Underscores’ sophomore belts upwards, changing my mind on the project entirely. Whereas the debut, to me, listened like a 100gecs knock-off, Wallsocket is entirely its own, a boundless expulsion of tenderness and melody, originality and personality.

Pick: ‘Old money bitch’

#wallsocket #underscores #pop #indie #indie rock #indietronica #electropop #noise pop #dance pop #indie pop #2023 #music #review #music review

[opposumghost]

saw this with movies on twitter, so thought i'd do it with music. reblog with your top 12 albums this year so far! here's mine:

#1 - beloved paridise jazz #2 - wallsocket #3 - why does the earth give us people to love #4 - the record #5 - desire i want to turn into you #6 - rat saw god #7 - did you know that there's a tunnel under ocean blvd? #8 - my back was a bridge for you to cross #9 - scaring the hoes #10 - guts #11 - saved! #12 - girl with fish #music #music 2023 #albums #musician #album cover #musicindustry #top 12

[spectrumpulse]

#2023 #music #spectrum pulse #album review #on the pulse #underscores #wallsocket #hyperpop #emo #glitch #pop rock #Youtube

[godsavetheanimalz]

my (personal) favorite albums of 2023!!! 1. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE 2. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 3. Liturgy - 93696 4. Anohni - My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross 5. Geese - 3D Country 6. Snõõper - Super Snõõper 7. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps 8. Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My 9. Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy 10. Sampha - Lahai 11. Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! 12. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES 13. Squid - O Monolith 14. Wednesday - Rat Saw God 15. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 16. Kara Jackson - Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? 17. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You 18. Genesis Owusu - STRUGGLER 19. Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End 20. Underscores - Wallsocket 21. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 22. Paramore - This Is Why 23. King Krule - sPacE hEavy 24. Joanna Sternberg - I've Got Me 25. grouptherapy. - i was mature for my age, but i was still a child 26. Parannoul - After the Magic 27. Spiritual Cramp - Spiritual Cramp 28. The Armed - Perfect Saviors 29. Screaming Females - Desire Pathway 30. Jeromes Dream - The Gray In Between 31. Alice Longyu Gao - Let's Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire 32. Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan 33. amaarae - Fountain Baby 34. feeble little horse - Girl With Fish 35. Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 36. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are 37. squirrel flower - Tomorrow's Fire 38. Frost Children - Hearth Room 39. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel 40. Snow Strippers - April Mixtape 3

#my aoty #aoty 2023 #my personal aoty #jeff rosenstock aoty #sufjan stevens #geese #anohni #liturgy #paramore #mitski #100 gecs #king krule #feeble little horse #sampha #underscores #indigo de souza #genesis owusu #caroline polachek #parannoul #alice longyu gao #jeromes dream #screaming females #frost children #hotline tnt #amaarae #the armed #spiritual cramp #grouptherapy. #joanna sterberg #snow strippers

[thatdammchickennugget]

2023 Wrapped Tag Game

To celebrate 2023 coming to an end, create a moodboard inspired by your favourite memories of the year and answer any (or all) of the questions below <3

1. Top 3 songs of 2023 2. Top 3 artists of 2023 3. Top 3 albums of 2023 4. Top 3 movies of 2023 5. Top 3 tv shows of 2023 6. Top 3 books of 2023 7. Top 3 youtubers of 2023 8. Top 3 podcasts of 2023 9. Top 3 videogames of 2023 10. Top 3 celebrity crushes of 2023 11. Top 3 fictional crushes of 2023 12. Top 3 places you visited in 2023 13. Top 3 new things you tried in 2023 14. Top 3 things you were grateful for in 2023 15. Top 3 things you are looking forward to in 2024

1. Top 3 songs of 2023 Daylight by David Kushner, Grüne Augen Lügen Nicht by JEREMIAS, Tommy by AnnenMayKantereit

2. Top 3 artists of 2023 David Kushner, Hozier, Noah Kahan

3. Top 3 albums of 2023 Unreal Earth by Hozier, Wallsocket by underscores and Rush! by Måneskin

4. Top 3 movies of 2023 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, The Boy And The Heron

5. Top 3 tv shows of 2023 Avatar the last airbender, the summer I turned pretty, Julie and the Phantoms

6. Top 3 books of 2023 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Isles Of The Gods by Amie Kaufman, Five Survive by Holly Jackson

7. Top 3 youtubers of 2023 Rezo, Wendigoon, BooksandLala

8. Top 3 podcasts of 2023 Hobbylos, Not Another D&D Podcast, Creep Cast

9. Top 3 videogames of 2023 Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, What Remains Of Edith Finch

10. Top 3 celebrity crushes of 2023 Florence Pugh, Pedro Pascal, Josh Hutcherson

11. Top 3 fictional crushes of 2023 Enzo Berkshire, Fred Weasley, Bradley Bradshaw

12. Top 3 places you visited in 2023 Austria, Köln (favourite german city and Joshua Bassett concert <3), the Netherlands

13. Top 3 new things you tried in 2023 started writing fanfiction again, learned to crochet, got into poetry

14. Top 3 things you were grateful for in 2023 my friends, books, music

15. Top 3 things you are looking forward to in 2024 new book releases, going to more concerts, going to the netherland with friends again

No pressure tags: @pizzaapeteer @slytherinslut0 @finalgirllx @ashisgreedy @jayybugg @theeslutintheroom @suugarbabe @heirofs1ytherin @dramaticals @theostrophywife @berryzxx @ahead-fullofdreams @once-upon-an-imagine @buckyandgeraltsupremacy @cyrygher @njutul @halucynator

+ anyone else who would like to do this just feel tagged by me <3

#2023 wrapped tag game #tag game #tagging game #moodboard #mutuals #2023

[moth--punk]

top 10 albums / eps of 2023~~

pretty fuckin good year, ended up leaving out a bunch of stuff that i was considering just for space. list below the cut!

underscores - wallsocket

crisis sigil - god cum poltergeist

100 gecs - 10,000 gecs

model/actriz - dogsbody

jpegmafia feat. danny brown - scaring the hoes

free.99 - trauma reduction prayer

frost children - speed run

water on the thirsty ground - exploding head syndrome

flesh produce - couch slime iv

katie dey - never falter hero girl

#top 10 #top 10 albums #music #furry #digital art #csp #siren #bitetown #mothpunk draws #sketch

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Cops and robbers • Locals (Girls like us) • Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh • You don't even know who I am • Johnny johnny johnny • Shoot to kill, kill your darlings • Horror movie soundtrack • Old money bitch • Geez louise • Seventyseven dog years • Uncanny long arms • Good luck final girl

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ Youtube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: underscores #language: english #decade: 2020s #Indietronica #Indie Rock #Electropop #New Rave #Noise Pop #Glitch Pop #Dance-Pop #Singer-Songwriter #Indie Pop #Hyperpop

[flameshardsgoo]

💿 my 2023 favorite albums, most new to me, some old :) the top rows are the most important but nothing else is really in order.

i spent a lot of time biking around this summer, usually while alone, usually listening to music, and i think it shows.

I was listening to wallsocket like every day too.. it was fun to get so obsessed with such a brand new album, bc then i got to go to the show like two weeks later which was crazy. the last time that happened the album was god save the animals and then i went to the show without knowing any of alex g's other music lol!

#⧉ #😁🍻 #this was so fun to make i understand my lastfm guys now

[catty-words]

thoughts about wallsocket (2023) that i know you were all itching for because i've obviously convinced you all to be as head over heels for this artist as i am:

- the first listen felt a little draggy and i thought the busyness of the tracks was unfocused, which i was prepared to be bummed about because that's an element of underscores' music that i really enjoy for reasons both straightforward (sounds make brain go brrrr) and deep (as an artist, i think her preoccupation with distraction and having to be the Shiniest to hold attention - individual or cultural - really complements the production style). but!

- the good news is i fell so fucking hard for every track by the second listen and i think the inertia i felt was mainly between 'duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh' and 'you don't even know who i am' and by my third or forth listen, i was finding them the most engaging tracks on the album.

- good luck being the album's mantra makes me want to suffocate on velvet idk. in context, it's as dark as the whole of boneyard aka fearmonger (2021) but there's also a through line in underscores' work of her being exceptionally lucky (see "lonesharks", "horror movie soundtrack") and it feels as much like a helpless platitude as it does like a magical spell she's casting to keep us safe. which - themes!! and things/people/circumstances being so much of one thing they loop back around to being that thing's polar opposite.

- speaking of, the johnny of "johnny johnny johnny" validating the narrator's identity while also preying on her is my favorite vehicle for that theme so far.

- "shoot to kill, kill your darlings" is the first track i fell head over heels for, on the first listen and everything. and i keep getting more out of it with subsequent listens. think of me when you listen to this one, please. 💙

- when the "kinko's field trip 2006" hit???? reader i got CHILLS. literally shivered about it and it got me on listen two and three, as well. i don't think i've fully grappled with what its incorporation into wallsocket (2023) is trying to accomplish, but i do know it worked on me, like, a little too well. gonna be insane about it for the foreseeable future, gnashing my teeth as i type this in fact.

- i've had "cops and robbers" since it was released in may and somehow it wasn't until listening today that the full story really sunk in? like, i managed to hear i resurrect the dead and i'm not the bad guy, like it's just sitting there fully for the first time today? and, god, was the good luck-ing always in the mix? songs gaining new meaning in the context of their albums my beloved. album openers my beloved.

- does "you don't even know who i am" sample claptrap from borderlands? if not, that's still what the backing mantra on the track puts me in mind of, which gives the song a very compelling 'people vs technology' read that i've been getting a lot out of.

- underscores, i am pledging my allegiance to you.

#you have not seen the last of me going bozo bozo bozo about this album promise #wallsocket (2023) #underscores #general music tag #more excited than ever to see her on 10/3!!!!!!

[jetstarred]

what i listened to in february 2024!

total: 10 albums top three albums: scrapyard (quadeca), gloom division (idkhow), kid a (radiohead) click read more for full reviews ^-^

i let it in and it took everything - loathe (2020) - fav song: is it really you? - this album is a very nice melding of grungegaze and more hardcore screamo. the melodies and fuzz drew me in and made me really enjoy the hardcore parts, which usually i'm not the biggest fan of. i definitely preferred the more melodic parts of the album, but i can see the heavier parts growing on me with more listens. i think bands like loathe and narrow head are the perfect bridge from grungegaze into heavier music for someone like me and i look forward to listening to newer releases from loathe. - rating: 8/10

wolf - tyler, the creator (2013) - fav song: domo23 - this album is like a slightly more mature version of goblin in terms of how it's produced. it's still largely the same offensive content that i disliked in goblin but there's some parts that are a little more enjoyable to me. for the most part it's really similar to goblin so i don't feel like i have much to say. i did like the more melodic features, especially erykah badu's feature - rating: 5/10

armed to the teeth l.m.o.m.m. - kill alters (2022) - fav song: cesspit - this was a really good industrial rock album with digital hardcore elements. i love bonnie baxter's vocals and the audio samples (while i don't recognize them) add to the slightly unsettling nature of this album. there are some very short tracks that serve more as transitions between songs which makes this the kinda album you should listen to front to back instead of listening to songs individually. - rating: 7/10

cherry bomb - tyler, the creator (2015) - fav song: cherry bomb - from the first second i was vibing with this album and i stayed really enjoying it the entire time. the production is amazing by my casual listener standards. there's a lot of electronic noises that i love especially the twinkly synths and heavy bass. the lyrics are evolving past the vulgar content in tyler's first two albums, especially thanks to some of the features on the album. i got very excited over the kali uchis features and i'm sure it was a big deal for tyler to get lil wayne and kanye features on the same song. for me this is a massive step up from the previous two albums. - rating: 8/10

by the time i get to phoenix - injury reserve (2021) - fav song: postpostpartum - this album has an atmosphere that's really unsettling and kept me on edge the entire time. some tracks made me feel like i was having a panic attack almost, but in a good way? the production is really good at creating a tense vibe that feels like you're constantly looking over your shoulder or being suffocated by fog. the lyrics vary from song to song, but are largely pretty good. this is a great experimental hip hop album and i hope it got some hip hop fans to explore more noisy music. - rating: 9/10

scrapyard - quadeca (2024) - fav song: easier - this album is a beautiful evolution of the sound explored in idmthy. it's freed from the concept of the previous album, allowed to explore different topics and sounds. i love how grand and full this album sounds, like i'm being surrounded by every song. many of the songs sound bright in a way that makes me think of sunlight and water and light breeze. but there's still some heaviness and electronic elements that add a complexity to this album. while it's more disjointed than the very tight idmthy, this is such a good follow up and i can see myself growing to love this album in a very fond way. and shout out to u tried that thing where ur human for making me cry. - rating: 9/10

wallsocket - underscores (2023) - fav song: johnny johnny johnny - i like how reflective this album is in a way that's very synonymous with being a young adult and thinking back to how you acted when you were even younger. the album as a whole is more melodic and slower than i expected but it fits nicely with the vibe i think is trying to be conveyed. the electronic and more hyperpop reminiscent parts are my favorites. i just really like it! - rating: 7/10

kid a - radiohead (2000) - fav song: idioteque - i love the atmosphere this album creates. i feel like i'm floating through space but it's like water and the stars are like pixels. it's a little unsettling but mostly makes me feel like i'm phasing out of my body. i love how electronic certain sections get and abstract other sections get. i see why it's a lot of peoples favorite radiohead album. - rating: 9/10

gloom division - i dont know how but they found me (2024) - fav song: what love? - WOAH is this a step up from razzmatazz. the exploration of genres in this album is so cool and sprawling, but stays connected by dallon's vocals and many of the whimsical and analog elements that have become idkhow's signature style. i stayed grooving the entire time. - rating: 9/10

flower boy - tyler, the creator (2017) - fav song: see you again - this album is on par with cherry bomb BUT finally tyler's outgrown the offensive lyrics that i really disliked. on the music side it's more poppy than cherry bomb but still on a similar level of quality. i do quite like the different elements in this album. one thing that really stuck out to me on this album was the synths which i really enjoyed - rating: 8/10

#wilt #jet reviews

[cheddar-baby]

Cheddar's AOTY 2023

Titles under the read more

1. HMLTD - The Worm 2. Sampha - Lahai 3. Kara Jackson - Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? 4. Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus 5. Dorian Electra - Fanfare 6. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 7. Underscores - Wallsocket 8. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! 9. Dev Lemons - Delusional 10. EABS - In Search of a Better Tomorrow 11. George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya 12. Marina Herlop - Nekkuja 13. Ana Frango elétrico - Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua 14. Yoni Mayraz - Dybbuk Tse! 15. Maruja - Knocknarea 16. O. - Slice 17. CMAT - Crazymad, For Me 18. Magdalena Bay - mini mix vol. 3 19. Oneohtrix Point Never - Again 20. JPEGMAFIA - scaring the hoes 21. Paramore - This Is Why 22. McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? 23. Billy Woods - Maps 24. SLAUSON MALONE 1 - EXCELSIOR 25. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics 26. Chini.png - El día libre de Polux 27. Shame - Food For Worms 28. feeble little horse - Girl With Fish 29. Geese - 3D Country 30. Lauren Auder - the infinite spine 31. urias - HER MIND 32. Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) 33. Speakers Corner Quartet - Further Out Than The Edge 34. The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part Two 35. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE 36. Rebecca Black - Let Her Burn 37. Doja Cat - Scarlet 38. SPARKLE DIVISION - FOXY 39. Ballaké Sissoko - Les Égarés (with Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Emile Parisien & Vincent Peirani) 40. Genesis Owusu - STRUGGLER 41. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 42. grouptherapy. - I Was Mature For My Age, But I Was Still a Child 43. Ukandanz - Kemekem (ከመከም) 44. Meitei - Kofū III 45. Liv.e - Girl In The Half Pearl 46. Feist - Multitudes 47. Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire 48. katie dey - never falter hero girl 49. CHAI - CHAI 50. Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

#music #aoty

[wanlittlehusk]

2023 faves (asterixed came out this year)

music: wallsocket by underscores*, celebration rock by japandroids, romance is boring by los campesinos, juno by remi wolf, dolly mixture, le tigre self titled

films: desperate living, bloodsisters, smithereens, asteroid city/wes anderson's roald dahl shorts*, may december*, all that jazz, doom generation, enys men*

books: biography of x by catherine lacey*, missing time by ari brostoff, heroine by gail scott, fair play by tove jansson, all of sarah schulman's fiction, idlewild by james frankie thomas*, walking through clear water in a pool painted black by cookie mueller

tagged by @weirdgirlification, tagging @edwardalbee @ambientwitch @thepoisonroom @steveyockey @leonardcohenofficial @loamvessel @bloodgutshighschool

[ghost-texture]

I’ll always share my Spotify wrapped because I think it’s neat as hell to see what everyone listened to this year. I didn’t get L to the OG to the top like I wanted, my commitment to the bit waned unfortunately.

2023 my music listening habits were very different than they normally are, I spent less time keeping up with new releases and wayyy more time exploring artists and genres that I previously hadn’t really listened to.

That being said there were still a few projects from this year that I really loved that I figured I’d take the time to write a little about now.

5. Actual Life 3 Piano EP (January 1-September 9,2022)- Fred again..

Really inspiring EP for me, it’s a quiet reflective audio journal featuring some ambient sounds, some really cool samples, and some pretty piano playing throughout it’s a lot more lowkey than his album last year but I really enjoy that.

Favorite track: Nathan (Varner Road)

4. Quaranta by Danny Brown.

While I really enjoyed Danny’s work with JPEGMafia this year, I ultimately prefer this solo release from him this year. It’s a follow up to his album XXX, on that album Danny was a 30 year old struggling to make it as a rapper, now a decade later he’s obtained the success he once wanted so badly and he finds himself reflecting on where he was and where he is now. While financially Danny is better off than he was a decade ago,mentally he is still hurting and struggling as much as he was then. It’s a raw and vulnerable album with some excellent production throughout and some of the best verses of Danny’s career in my opinion.

Favorite Track: Down Wit It

3. Census Designated by Jane Remover

On Census Designated Jane Remover moves away from the hyperpop and digicore influences of her last album and leans more into rock and shoegaze, although there a certainly still a ton of fun little glitchy and stuttering effects throughout. If you like Ethel Cain I’d highly recommend this album.

Favorite Track: Cage Girl/ Camgirl

2. Wallsocket by underscores

A really wonderful pop rock concept album filled to the brim with infectious hooks, creative sampling and a lot of fun vocal manipulation throughout. There are no skips on this thing, every song is bursting with this really great creative energy. There are only few songs that I fell in love with this year more than You don’t know who I am.

Favorite track: You don’t know who I am.

1. 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs

The second I hit play on this album and I heard the THX logo sound followed by gunshots and the sick main riff on Dumbest Girl Alive, I knew this was going to be my favorite album of the year.

Here the gecs expand on their sound from the first album, refining it and fine tuning it, while still maintaining the playful energy that made the first album so exciting. Every song on the album has at least one or two lines that have permanently burrowed their way into my brain like the best ear worms do.

This album really flexes the duos skills at genre blending as they take from nu-metal, rap, pop, rock and ska and fuse them all into this wild album. It’s an unpredictable and fun listen one second they’ll be singing about struggling to make it in Hollywood, and little later you’ll get a song about having a tooth removed.

There’s a playful rebelliousness to all of their songs that I just can’t get enough of.

Favorite track: Dumbest Girl Alive (duh it’s my most listened to song this year) but I also wanna shoutout Most Wanted Person in The United States, that song fucking rules.

What’d you like this year?

#spotify wrapped #2023 music #danny brown #100 gecs #underscores #jane remover #fred again

[sleepycap]

2023 is over so here's the coolest stuff I got to see last year!

Top 5 movies of 2023

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Boy and the Heron

Barbie

Asteroid City

Top 5 albums of 2023

Geese - 3D Country

Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE

JPEGMAFIA + Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes

Underscores - Wallsocket

The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling

Top 5 games of 2023

Resident Evil 4

Hi-Fi Rush

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Dead Space

Top 5 overall movies of 2023

Apocalypse Now

Memories of Murder

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Shawshank Redemption

Top 5 overall albums of 2023

Gustavo Cerati - Bocanada

Massive Attack - MEZZANINE

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Fugazi - Repeater

Geese - 3D Country

Top 5 overall games of 2023

Resident Evil 4

Hypnospace Outlaw

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Hi-Fi Rush

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Can't wait to see what's in store for 2024! :)

#mediathread2023