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Underscores

U

Third full-length self-produced release from the New York-based pop artist April Harper Grey

ADM rating[?]

8.5

Label
MOM+POP
UK Release date
20/03/2026
US Release date
20/03/2026
  1. 10.0 |   NME

    A tour-de-force of production chops that cements April Harper Grey as a key auteur in the future of the genre
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  2. 10.0 |   Dork

    This is a proper pop album, not in spite of its oddness, but because of it
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  3. 9.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    An album that finds itself utterly dedicated to populist pop perfection, melding its past, present and future together for one of the year’s most earnest displays of grandeur
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  4. 9.0 |   Clash

    It’s a scintillating experience, perhaps the moment where underscores fully out-strips her peers, and comes into her own
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  5. 8.6 |   Pitchfork

    The former electro-pop enfant terrible swings big on her latest album, compressing all her split personalities and eclectic tastes into a high-gloss, high-stakes gamble to remake pop on her own terms
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  6. 8.6 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    It’s technical excellence as a musical product cannot be overstated. For a pop album to be this busy yet possess a pocket as deep and rich as underscores displays here is simply amazing
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  7. 8.3 |   Paste Magazine

    April Harper Grey’s latest hits all the beats of a classic pop record — a choreo-primed single, a power ballad, a post-breakup closure anthem — without overstaying its welcome
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  8. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Performing, writing and producing everything herself, April Grey pares back her hyperpop electronics for an LP in thrall to 90s pop-R&B, with songs that big stars would die for
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  9. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    On U, she finds a clearly-defined, rounded-out identity in her music for the first time, and she delivers the most immediate and the most robust work of her career
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  10. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    It’s a confident evolution from her 2020 EP Character Development!, with Grey producing an utterly refined sound that encapsulates the highs of the 2010 pop, bro-step and bubblegum bass eras
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