SOAK premieres video for ‘Sea Creatures’
Debut album – ‘Before We Forgot How to Dream’ – announced for June 1
Headline Tour on sale Friday 13th, Worldwide tour dates and SK9 shows also confirmed
“A vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking: intricate, ambiguous psychodramas” Guardian
“SOAK’s sound has snippets of Cat Power and the delicacy of Lykke Li…well-crafted and uplifting psalms” Noisey
“Age be damned. Talent shouts louder” NME
“Understated and beautiful” Stereogum
SOAK has unveiled the video to new single ‘Sea Creatures’, alongside plans for her debut album and further live dates. ‘Sea Creatures’ will be released via Rough Trade on March 16, and is moving up the Radio 1 playlist, currently on the C list (with support spanning Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens to Fearne Cotton and Annie Mac, plus additional spins across 6Music and XFM). The new video – premiering today – draws together the narratives of various characters via one life-changing event, and was filmed (often with just Bridie and her skateboard) at the crack of dawn around London’s Olympic Park.
Named a One To Watch for 2015 via the likes of iTunes, Spotify and the BBC Sound Poll, SOAK has also today announced details of her forthcoming debut album. ‘Before We Forgot How to Dream’ will be released on June 1 and is available for pre-order now (with ‘Sea Creatures’, ‘B a noBody’ and ‘SHUVELS’ available to download immediately as instant-grats). Currently embarking on a free run of shows at skate-parks nationwide, Bridie has confirmed early festival slots (SXSW, Great Escape, Primavera) together with just-announced debut shows across America and Australia. A forthcoming headline tour – featuring London’s Bush Hall on June 4 – goes on sale this Friday at 9AM.
‘Before We Forgot How to Dream’ is a stunning snapshot of SOAK’s formative years growing up in Northern Ireland, touching variously on the themes of isolation, family and what to do with your future. Already compared with the likes of Laura Marling and Beach House, Bridie has been a rising star in her hometown of Derry since the age of 14, when a chance uploading of the ‘Sea Creatures’ demo to the BBC Introducing playlist saw A&R board the next flight over and park up outside the Monds-Watson’s household. Yet SOAK rushed into nothing, instead splitting her time between studies, the local skate-park and daunting early shows (such as opening Derry’s tenure as City of Culture hours before a GCSE exam). Things moved forward last year, when Bridie teamed up with CHVRCHES for their launch of a singles label, toured with George Ezra and Tegan & Sara, before signing a deal with Rough Trade the same summer most of her friends got their A-Level results. Produced alongside Tommy from Villagers, her debut album traces SOAK’s extraordinary journey to this point, and marks Bridie’s graduation from raw talent to a significant songwriter for the years ahead. It seems also to speak of those more universal joys and fears of adolescence, before we, too, forgot how to dream.
Feb 13 Bournemouth, Prevail Skate House (SK9 Tour)
Feb 14 Weymouth, Front Skate Park (SK9 Tour)
Feb 17 London, Parlour Skate Shop (SK9 Tour)
Feb 19 Halifax, Orangebox (SK9 Tour)
Feb 20 Dumbarton, Unit 23 Skate Park (SK9 Tour)
Feb 21 Sheffield, The House Skate Park (SK9 tour)
Feb 23 Paris Fireworks Festival – Le Carmen
March 5 Oslo by:Larm Festival @ Mpono
March 6 Oslo by:Larm Festival @ Kirken
March 12 New York Rockwood Music Hall:https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/784783?utm_medium=bks
March 12 Brooklyn TBC
March 18-20 Texas SXSW Festival
April 9 Brescia Foyer Teatro Grande
April 10 Ravenna Bronson
April 11 San Costanzo-Pesaro Teatro della Concordia
April 15 Sydney Hibernian House
April 17 Melbourne Shadow Electric
April 18 Auckland The Golden Dawn
April 23 Berlin Kantine am Berghain
May 14-15 Brighton Great Escape Festival
May 16 Brussels Les Nuits Botanique
May 22 Mannheim Mailfeld Derby
May 23 Dortmund Way Back When
May 31 Barcelona Primavera Sound Festival
UK & IRELAND HEADLINE TOUR (on sale 13.02.2015)
June 4 London Bush Hall: https://tickets.songkick.com/events/22865418
June 5 Manchester Sacred Trinity: http://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/Soak
June 6 Glasgow Oran Mor: http://www.gigsinscotland.com/
June 10 Belfast Empire Music Hall: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/Soak-tickets/artist/790069
June 11 Dublin Pepper Cannister: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/Soak-tickets/artist/790069
June 12 Galway Roisin Dubh: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/Soak-tickets/artist/790069
June 13 Cork Triskel Christchurch: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/Soak-tickets/artist/790069
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