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Grim Town
ReleaseProduct
Grim Town
Artist
SOAK
Label
Rough Trade
Catalogue Number
RT0039DA
Release Date
April 26, 2019

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.

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 "all aboard" 1:28 Buy

    "all aboard"

  2. 2 Get Set Go Kid 4:18 Buy

    Get Set Go Kid

  3. 3 Everybody Loves You 3:19 Buy

    Everybody Loves You

  4. 4 Knock Me Off My Feet 3:07 Buy

    Knock Me Off My Feet

  5. 5 Maybe 4:30 Buy

    Maybe

  6. 6 Fall Asleep / Backseat 3:24 Buy

    Fall Asleep / Backseat

  7. 7 Crying Your Eyes Out 3:59 Buy

    Crying Your Eyes Out

  8. 8 I Was Blue, Technicolour Too 3:58 Buy

    I Was Blue, Technicolour Too

  9. 9 Déjà vu 3:11 Buy

    Déjà vu

  10. 10 Scrapyard 2:44 Buy

    Scrapyard

  11. 11 Valentine Shmalentine 3:58 Buy

    Valentine Shmalentine

  12. 12 YBFTBYT 2:33 Buy

    YBFTBYT

  13. 13 Life Trainee 3:53 Buy

    Life Trainee

  14. 14 Missed Calls 5:01 Buy

    Missed Calls

  15. 15 Nothing Looks the Same 4:04 Buy

    Nothing Looks the Same

SOAK

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