SOAK, aka singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, releases their new album If I Never Know You Like This Again. Alongside the release comes the lyric video and an intimate acoustic version for the final single from the record, ‘Swear Jar’. Watch below! ‘Swear Jar’ deals with depression and the breakdown of a relationship. “I felt so disconnected from myself and life that I was starting to question if I’d ever truly been present or if I’d always been...
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Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK shares ‘purgatory’, the second single from their third album If I Never Know You Like This Again. Listen to ‘purgatory’ and watch the accompanying video shot by Ellius Grace below! Bridie explains “’purgatory’ is about the weight of time and the perpetual fear of reaching the end of your life, unsatisfied with how you’d spent it. The song came out of a slump phase, I wasn’t really a fan of myself and honestly just felt...
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Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK, has announced their third album If I Never Know You Like This Again. To be released by Rough Trade Records on May 20th, 2022, the announcement arrives alongside the the release of new track ‘last july’ – the accompanying video was shot by Ellius Grace, and stars Bridie and their partner. If I Never… is the follow up to 2019’s Grim Town and SOAK’s Mercury-nominated 2015 debut album Before We Forgot How to Dream. SOAK’s Bridie Monds-Watson (they/them) has incessantly documented their life in...
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SOAK – aka Ireland’s Bridie Monds-Watson – has released a new collaboration track and film called ‘I’m Alive‘. Conceptualised by Ellius Grace during the height of lockdown, ‘I’m Alive’ is based around a poem written and performed by SOAK with instrumental music created by Gemma Doherty of Saint Sister. It brings together a team of collaborators from across Ireland who worked in isolation to create the track and accompanying short...
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SOAK has released her new album Grim Town – out now via Rough Trade. Listen here. Grim Town is a record about getting lost that you can, also, truly get lost in. It arrives as inspired by the audio-visual environmentalism of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ as the production of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene or Phoebe Bridgers. Bridie tackles everything from long-distance love, depression, divorce and social anxiety to the...
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SOAK shares a new video for ‘Déjà Vu‘ – the lead single from her new album Grim Town, out 26 April via Rough Trade. Director Brother Willis calls the video “a looping, nonsensical, Lynchian dream,” and explains further that his goal “was to make a disconnected and confusing performance video, one that recasts Bridie as both performer, then observer, and back and forth in dreamlike messiness. I have a bit...
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SOAK has unveiled beautiful new track ‘Valentine Shmalentine’. Together with new single ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’ and returning track ‘Everybody Loves You’, ‘Valentine Shmalentine’ is taken from Bridie’s second album Grim Town, out on April 26. Grim Town follows SOAK’s debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and an extraordinary period of invention and self-discovery for the still-just-22-year-old Derry native. Haunting, atmospheric and brutally honest, Bridie says ‘Valentine Shmalentine’ is “the result...
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SOAK announces details of her second album Grim Town, released on Friday 26 April, as well as unveiling new single ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’. Watch the accompanying video below! Grim Town follows SOAK’s debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and an extraordinary period of invention and self-discovery for the still-just-22-year-old Derry native. The upcoming album is available for pre-order here. ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’ is a love letter...
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SOAK has shared the video for her acclaimed new single ‘Everybody Loves You’, the first sight of new SOAK material since 2015’s debut album, Before We Forgot How To Dream. Bridie also performed the track for the first time on Ireland’s prestigious Late Late Show. Director Joseph Wilson explains the video as following SOAK whilst she “navigates through a world of temptation before eventually succumbing and accepting the chaos and love...
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SOAK is back today with beautiful new single ‘Everybody Loves You’, this is the first sight of new SOAK material since 2015’s critically-acclaimed debut album, Before We Forgot How To Dream. Watch the accompanying visual below! With extensive global touring along the way – and extreme experiences which have taken her far beyond (but often back to) her close-knit hometown of Derry – Bridie has been hard at work on...
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