News Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Indie folk prodigy Bridie Monds-Watson, a.k.a. SOAK, has announced her sophomore album, Grim Town. It’s due for release April 26th through Rough Trade Records. The upcoming effort follows up 2015’s Before We Forgot How To Dream, which earned the Northern Irish artist a prestigious Mercury Music Prize nomination (one of the youngest acts to receive such a nod). It also comes after her 2014 Blud EP, the first project to be put out by CHVRCHES’ own Goodbye Records label, as well as acclaimed festival sets at Primavera Sound and Glastonbury. Grim Town is comprised of 14 tracks that touch on the topics of “long-distance love, depression, divorce, and social anxiety to the changing modern landscape (sexually, politically, emotionally),” according to a press statement. Binding all the songs together is a central premise of “a dystopia that I’ve created in my brain: me on the inside, processed into a pretend location,” explains SOAK, born Bridie Monds-Watson. The 22-year-old elaborated further: “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.” Our first visit to Grim Town comes in the form of “Knock Me Off My Feet”. The snappy lead single is said to be a “love letter” to small-town culture and the idea that we ourselves can be our best allies and our worst enemies. Check it out below via its official music video. Grim Town Tracklist: 01. All Aboard 02. Get Set Go Kid 03. Everybody Loves You 04. Knock Me Off My Feet 05. Maybe 06. Fall Asleep, Backseat 07. Crying Your Eyes Out 08. I Was Blue, Technicolour Too 09. Deja Vu 10. Scrapyard 11. Valentine Schmalentine 12. YBFTBYT 13. Life Trainee 14. Missed Calls Later this month, SOAK will head out on a tour of North America and Europe. SOAK 2019 Tour Dates: 01/30 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge 02/01 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle 02/02 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd 02/05 – Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge 05/06 – Kendal, UK @ Kendal Library 05/10 – Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall 05/11 – Leeds, UK @ The Wardrobe 05/12 – Glasgow, UK @ King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut 05/14 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds 05/15 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford 05/16 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla 05/17 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall 05/19 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique 05/20 – Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet 05/22 – Hamburg, DE @ Prinzebar 05/23 – Berlin, DE @ Privatclub 05/24 – Cologne, DE @ Artheater 05/28 – Cork, IE @ Live at St. Lukes 05/29 – Limerick, IE @ Dolans 05/30 – Dublin, IE @ Button Factory 05/31 – Derry, UK @ The Glassworks Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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