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Jan 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts Photography by Ellius Grace SOAK

SOAK (Northern Ireland singer/songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson) has announced a new album, Grim Town, and shared a video for its new single, “Knock Me Off My Feet.” Grim Town is due out April 26 via Rough Trade. It includes “Everybody Loves You,” which she shared back in October and was one of our Songs of the Week (she also shared a video for the song). Below is the Jak Payne-directed video for “Knock Me Off My Feet,” which features Monds-Watson as a racecar driver, followed by the album’s tracklist and SOAK’s upcoming tour dates.

Grim Town is SOAK’s second album, the follow-up to 2015’s debut, Before We Forgot How to Dream. Back then she was only 19 years old, now of course she’s older (22) and likely wiser.

In a press release, Monds-Watson says that the central premise of Grim Town is “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. 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.”

Back in December SOAK also shared a cover of Chris Rea’s “Driving Home for Christmas,” via a video of her performing the song.

Read our 2015 interview with SOAK.

Grim Town Tracklist:

1. All Aboard
2. Get Set Go Kid
3. Everybody Loves You
4. Knock Me Off My Feet
5. Maybe
6. Fall Asleep, Backseat
7. Crying Your Eyes Out
8. I Was Blue, Technicolour Too
9. Deja Vu
10. Scrapyard
11. Valentine Schmalentine
12. YBFTBYT
13. Life Trainee
14. Missed Calls
15. Nothing Looks The Same

SOAK 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, Belgium @ Botanique - Rotonde
05/20 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet
05/22 - Hamburg, Germany @ Prinzebar
05/23 - Berlin, Germany @ Privatclub
05/24 - Cologne, Germany @ 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

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