SOAK. returns after 4 years with a new album, bringing with her 4 years worth of growth, introspection and understanding. The result is Grim Town, the follow-up to her Mercury Music Prize-nominated debut Before We Forgot How To Dream, which saw her win the prestigious Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year, the Northern Irish Music Prize, and the European Border Breaker Award, in addition to being shortlisted for a Q Award.

Her astonishingly assured, emotionally mature songwriting was often hailed as wise beyond its years; but, as her new album often asks, when do we ever truly shake off those childlike fears, the imposter-syndrome, the outsider-status? The term ‘to come of age’ lands with so much expectation, but with Grim Town, Bridie dissolves all such assuredness with imaginative, ambitious, and cathartic results.

It is almost as though the greater soundscape - heavier in places, more pop-focused in others - has given Soak the confidence to put her long overdue introspections in the firing line. It’s beauty and brutality is there from the album open opener, "Get Set Go Kid," which traces the train-tracks out of depression (“I’ve got to get out, I can’t live here anymore!”) and was as inspired by the audio-visual environmentalism of Pink Floyd’s The Wall as Bridie’s train-obsessed grandad on voiceover duties.

Past Shows


Jun
14
th
2019
7th St Entry
Jun
14
th
2019
7th St Entry

SOAK.

with Fenne Lily
Aug
4
th
2015
7th St Entry
Aug
4
th
2015
7th St Entry

SOAK.

with HOLLY HANSEN

More Shows

Sep
2
nd
7th St Entry

Glitterfox

with Jillian Rae
Jul
19
th
7th St Entry

Mati

with Orlando & the Rumors and Morgan McCarthy
Dec
13
th
First Avenue

The Suicide Commandos

with The Shackletons and VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
Sep
14
th
Fine Line

B.o.B