Music News - Rough Trade new signing SOAK: NZ Show Announcement
26 March 2015 - 0 Comments
Rough Trade Records & Rhythmethod are proud to announce that the debut album from SOAK, Before
We Forgot How To Dream, will be released in New Zealand Friday
29th May. Named a One To Watch for 2015 via the likes of
iTunes, Spotify and the BBC Sound Poll, SOAK has unveiled the video for
current single Sea Creatures as well as today announcing one New Zealand show.
SOAK will play a very intimate show at Auckland’s The Golden Dawn
Tavern on Saturday 18th April.
Door sales only.
Ticket buyers on the night will be get a free
download of single, B a noBody.
SOAK is 18-year-old Derry,
Northern Ireland based Bridie
Monds-Watson. She is currently on a UK tour playing exclusively
at skate parks and skate gear shops.
The much talked-about 18 year old Northern Irish singer/songwriter SOAK has just spent a
week in Austin, Texas, wowing crowds at the annual SXSW
music conference. She was described by Consequence of Sound as "the only performer to stun the
crowd to silence", and the NY Times said "I saw a lot of great stuff at
SWSX. But I have to choose one. She’s 18... But amazing — and I very
much doubt I’ll get this close again"
SOAK's new video for Sea Creatures 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. Sea Creatures has been picked up by the
BBC and Watch the video via the image below.
WATCH / SHARE THE SEA
CREATURES VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgaRm9j8SQI
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 Introducingplaylist 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.
Auckland’s The Golden
Dawn Tavern on Saturday
18th April.
Door sales only.
Ticket buyers on the night will be get a free download of single, B a noBody
SOAK- Before We Forgot How To
Dream
Out May 29thon CD, LP and DL
via Rough
Trade / Rhythmethod
“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
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