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Grim Town’ is about two spaces – one physical, one psychological. In part it's a paean to extraordinarily gifted 22-year-old songwriter Bridie Monds-Watso.

This week's RTÉ Radio 1 Album Of The Week is Grim Town, the eagerly-awaited second album from brilliant Derry-born singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, AKA Soak.

Soak: Grim Town album artwork. As introductions go, it’s a crude and largely needless one. Once Grim Town kicks into gear, it quickly becomes clear that the Derry-born musician is appealing to those familiar with the frightening disorientation that accompanies psychological distress (something even those with reliable pay packets have been known to experience). How can I be home and still want to go there? asks the 22-year-old on I Was Blue, Technicolour Too, with a deftness of expression that belies her years, while on Fall Asleep, Backseat she is terrified that I’d forgot how to smile.

Grim Town mourns the loss of simplicity that comes with childhood and teenage years and tries to fumble through the emotional wreckage with some sense of healthy normalcy (if such a thing exists). While it’s not immune to occasional moments of tediousness ( Fall Asleep, Backseat, I Was Blue, Technicolour Too ), Grim Town packages young adulthood in painfully authentic, graceful soul-pop and spunky indie-rock. There’s romance gone sour, relentless what ifs, tales of microwave timers, party poppers and grocery store flowers and most of all, the mounting societal and emotional pressures that signify adulthood.

SOAK’s honesty, combined with her considerable musical gifts, ensures that Grim Town is always a nice place to visit, even if you’d never want to live there. 70. She’s now surpassed on its follow up Grim Town, which continues the themes of her debut, but with a new emotional growth.

SOAK has released her second album. Titled 'Grim Town', it's out today (Friday, 26th April) via Rough Trade, and will be supported by a run of shows that kicks off on 6th May at Kendall Library. Speaking about the premise of the album, SOAK (aka Bridie Monds-Watson) reveals: a dystopia that I’ve created in my brain: me on the inside, processed into a pretend location. 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

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SOAK at the Way Back When festival, 2015. Background information. Bridie Monds-Watson, better known by her stage name SOAK, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter born in Derry in 1996. SOAK's music has been described as 'a vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking' by The Guardian. She released her debut studio album Before We Forgot How to Dream in May 2015. SOAK is a phonetic portmanteau of Soul and Folk. Released: 26 April 2019.

Soak - Grim Town (2019). SOAK returns after 4 years with a new album, bringing with her 4 years-worth of growth, introspection and understanding.