Out Now: SOAK – Grim Town

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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Watch: SOAK new video ‘Déjà Vu’

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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Listen: SOAK – ‘Valentine Shmalentine’

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 new album – Grim Town + shares ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’

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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