EN/ Origin stories reenact familiar myths; this one begins with a kid alone in a bedroom, trying to make something no one has heard before. Hailing from San Francisco, Filipino-American artist April Harper Grey started making music as underscores in middle school, sharing a steady stream of SoundCloud one-offs and building a community of like-minded fans. The 2017 skin purifying treatment EP pulled her project out of its solitary origins, and by 2021, her debut album fishmonger (recorded in that same childhood bedroom during the pandemic) launched underscores from recording vocals in a car to opening for 100 gecs on their US tour. Since then, underscores has sold out shows across the US, UK, Europe and beyond, played main stages at Lollapalooza, Coachella, Electric Forest, Governor’s Ball, Corona Capital CDMX and toured with the likes of Porter Robinson and Danny Brown. Now signed to Mom+Pop, she’s garnered over 150 million global streams and continued releasing adventurous, genre-defying music, including the concept album Wallsocket and collabs with Oklou, Danny Brown, Yaeji, Yves, Ninajirachi, umru and more.