She made her Glastonbury debut this year
Soak, aka Derry, Ireland’s Bridie Monds-Watson, recently released her second album Grim Town to critical acclaim, receiving rave 4* reviews in Q Mag and The Guardian, among other media. The release was immediately followed by a two-month of the UK, EU and USA, ending with a performance on Glastonbury’s Park stage.
There is a transience to the album, a movement which is sometimes unpredictable – heavier in places, more pop-focused in others, and it is this greater soundcape that seems to have given Soak the confidence to put her introspections in the firing line.
The new single ‘Maybe’ depicts this more poppy side to the album seen in the likes of Knock me off my feet and Life trainee, she becomes fluid and surreal, floating through somebody else’s psychological landscape‘I don’t’ even wanna know where I go in your memory.’
A record about getting lost that you can, also, truly get lost in, Grim Townarrives 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. With unflinching honesty, Bridie tackles everything from long-distance love, depression, divorce and social anxiety to the changing modern landscape (sexually, politically, emotionally).
Soak also recently made her US television debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers , performing Déjà Vu.
