SOAK "Grim-Town" 2XLP (2019)
Details: SOAK's second album, released on Rough Trade as a double album, 45RPM, in 2019. New stock, sealed.
Description: "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. Its 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."--Rough Trade
Grade: M (new stock)
TRACK LISTING SIDE A:
A1. All Aboard
A2. Get Set Go Kid
A3. Everybody Loves Me
A4. Knock Me Off My Feet
TRACK LISTING SIDE B:
B1. Maybe
B2. Fall Asleep / Backseat
B3. Crying Your Eyes Out
TRACK LISTING SIDE C:
C1. I Was Blue Technicolour Too
C2. Deja Vu
C3. Scrapyard
C4. Valentine, Schmalentine
TRACK LISTING SIDE D:
D1. YBFTBYT
D2. Life Trainee
D3. Missed Calls
D4. Nothing Looks The Same