Grim Town
On her second album, the Northern Irish musician graduates from lonesome singer-songwriter to bold art-pop auteur; her growing confidence translates to emotionally probing songs of startling candor.
The Northern Irish songwriter builds impressively upon the potential of her Mercury-nominated debut
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The album mixes together glossy, upbeat production with tales of disappointment, confusion and intergenerational angst.
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Irish songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson was still in their teens when they released 2015's Before We Forgot How to Dream, their affecting debut album as SOAK.
From the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, musician SOAK (Bridie Monds-Watson) has cultivated a soundscape of indie pop with her album G...
I’ve got a pack of Co-Op’s own brand iced lollies cooling in the freezer, a copy of Keith Richards’ Life to hand and SOAK’s new album Grim Town bustling away in the background.
At some point, youth cracks. That sense of perpetual invincibility, the world firmly clenched in your fist, the euphoria that rushes through your blood as you contemplate your ever-expanding horizon—everything starts to crumble.
Bridie Monds-Watson, AKA SOAK, seems older than her 22 years. Her songs feel like the world weary laments of someone much older, which made her
There was some criticism of SOAK's first album, Before We Forgot How to Dream (2015), complaining that the production distracted from Bridie Monds-Watson's...
'Grim Town' by Soak, album review by Matthew Wardell. The full-length comes out on April 27th, via Rough Trade Records and all streaming services
The indie singer-songwriter’s second album mines the genre’s long-established tropes to deliver soul-baring poignancy