Listen: SOAK – death valley fridge magnet

SOAK – Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson – has returned with ‘death valley fridge magnet’ on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, their first new solo song in over four years. It follows their 2024 viral collaboration with Fred Again.. on the track ‘just stand there’ which has been played over 25 million times. SOAK’s last album was 2022’s If I Never Know You Like This Again which followed 2019’s Grim Town and their Mercury-nominated 2015 debut Before We Forgot How to Dream.

Monds-Watson explains of the new track, “When I wrote ‘death valley fridge magnet’, I was feeling incredibly lost in my life. I’d started having vocal issues and thought my time in music was coming to an end. I think I was trying to make sense of myself and the direction I was headed by painting a picture of the world from where I was standing. In doing so I realised how precious and treasured my friendships are and how my friends remind me of who I am faster than anything else. Even if that’s a two minute long conversation at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere, America, it doesn’t take much and it all adds up.”

‘death valley fridge magnet’ highlights everything that sets SOAK apart as a songwriter, from their vivid lyricism to their spare melodies to their resonant, lilting voice. The artwork comes alongside a video shot by Charlotte Langel.

Stream / Download ‘death valley fridge magnet’ here.