Wallsocket
2023 studio album by Underscores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wallsocket is the second studio album by the American musician Underscores. It was released by Mom + Pop Music on September 22, 2023. After rising to prominence with her debut album Fishmonger in March 2021, Underscores began recording Wallsocket in January 2022. A higher budget allowed her to focus on immersion; the album's fictional Wallsocket, Michigan, setting was inspired by her grandparents's Idahoan house, Scandinavian architecture, social commentary on the upper middle class in slasher films, and rural American horror films. Across the album's characters, she eventually convinced herself to discuss transgender identity and the horseshoe theory. The songs, written acoustically first, were inspired by country and blues sonics, as well as 2010s pop. The album features appearances from Gabby Start, Henhouse!, and Jane Remover.
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Wallsocket is primarily pop, rock, and folk, with a large sonic palette and stark turns. A concept album about three girls navigating adulthood, it explores themes of corporatization, religion, gun violence, and class resentment. Wallsocket was promoted with four singles, a Hometown Tour across North America and Europe, and an alternate reality game involving websites of its fictional town setting. Critics enjoyed its frenzied production and character-driven narrative, and many considered it an improvement over Fishmonger. The album was featured on the year-end lists of several publications.