Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson has announced her sophomore record under the name SOAK, Grim Town. Due for release on April 26 via Rough Trade Records, the album follows 2015’s Mercury-nominated debut Before We Forgot How To Dream.
Monds-Watson describes the forthcoming album as “a dystopia that I’ve created in my brain: me on the inside, processed into a pretend location,” she explains. “The way I could wrap my head around a lot of what I was going through was to make it feel like something quite physical and real. Once I had the idea of the album being an actual location, exploring the dynamics of this town and what it would look or sound like felt like the right way to give my mental state a personality.”
Along with the album announcement, Monds-Watson has shared the single “Knock Me Off My Feet” via a NASCAR race-set video directed by Jak Payne. In October, she shared the single “Everybody Loves You.”
Watch the video for “Knock Me Off My Feet” as well as SOAK’s 2015 KEXP in-studio performance below.
"Everybody Loves You" is the first we've heard from the young Irish artist since her acclaimed debut Before We Forgot How To Dream
Unlike a lot of teenagers out there, 19-year-old Bridie Monds-Watson, a.k.a. SOAK, seems to handle success with a modest and casual confidence. Her career has taken off rather quickly, from writing songs in the basement of her home in Derry, Northern Ireland, to flying from country to country perfo…
