Posts Tagged ‘Soak’

SOAK – ” Digital Witness ” St Vincent Cover

Posted: July 7, 2017 in MUSIC
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Every month Rookie, a website that’s devoted to supporting and encouraging teenage girls and women, selects a theme song. This month they enlisted the enchanting teenage wunderkind SOAK to cover the St. Vincent glittering anti-technology jam “Digital Witness.” In 18-year-old Bridie Monds-Watson’s rendition, the song becomes a destroyed lullaby — a bedtime lull for dystopian times. When she sings “Won’t somebody sell me back to me?” in her pert, childish voice it’s a devastating, ironic twist on the capitalist commentary imbued in Annie Clark’s original. Given how coveted teenagers are as consumers, and how toxic most of this advertising is, it’s an even more harrowing line when Monds-Watons delivers it. This girl deserves to be as big as Lorde, and her ability to refashion Clark’s song in her own image proves it.

Soak’s debut album ‘Before We Forgot How To Dream’ is out on Rough Trade Records on 1st/2nd June 2015

SOAK – ” Tiny Desk Concert “

Posted: August 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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August 03rd, 2015,  The opening line of SOAK’s debut album — “A teenage heart is an unguided dart” — contains the first words I heard from 19-year-old singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson. Now, she’s bringing that fragile, pure, thickly Irish-accented voice to the Tiny Desk.

Before We Forgot How To Dream, SOAK’s debut, is one of my favorite albums of 2015. Monds-Watson’s songs are about growing up and trying to understand adults and friends and life; though they’re quiet, they aren’t dour. They can be funny and smart, atmospheric and delicate — so much more than might be expected from a lone Irish teenager with an acoustic guitar. NPR Radio invited SOAK into their offices for a breathtakingly intimate Tiny Desk Session, featuring “Sea Creatures,” “B a noBody,” and “Wait.”

As host Bob Boilen explained: “Before We Forgot How To Dream, SOAK’s debut, Monds-Watson’s songs are about growing up and trying to understand adults and friends and life; though they’re quiet, they aren’t dour. They can be funny and smart, atmospheric and delicate — so much more than might be expected from a lone Irish teenager with an acoustic guitar

Set List
♪”Sea Creatures”
♪”B a noBody”
♪”Wait”

SOAK – ” Immigrant Song ” Led Zeppelin Cover

Posted: May 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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Soak’s debut album ‘Before We Forgot How To Dream’ is out on Rough Trade Records on 1st/2nd June 2015, “Immigrant Song” is one of Led Zeppelin’s many classics, known and loved for its iconic guitar and bass lines, as well as Robert Plant’s sky-reaching shrieks. But in the hands of 18-year-old Irish songwriter,Soak , the song has become a threatening drone. Building on pulsating synths and elongated guitar notes, refrains from the frenzied heights of the original to create a creepy rendition highlighting the really rather brutal lyrics. Some director somewhere is going to pick this up for the trailer of their next dark fantasy epic.  This cover was recorded for Fearne Cotton’s last show on BBC Radio One.

SOAK – ” Sea Creatures “

Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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SOAK is the music of eighteen-year-old Bridie Monds-Watson from Derry in  Ireland. I love the simplicity in her music and puzzling out the images in this song, “Sea Creatures.” At one moment I think it’s a love song, with lines like:

When they tell you they love you,They don’t know what love is.
Throw it around like it’s worthless.They don’t know what love is.

Photo: Press

But at other times it feels like the difficulty of understanding the adult world when you’re young. The video adds another dimension to SOAK’s simple and spare song. Director Charlie Rotberg told us via email that he and Bridie “wanted to explore how raw and intense your experience of life is when you’re young, how you continue to experience the world like that as an adult but perhaps get better at hiding it. Using a cross-section of human experience, we set out to examine what lurks just beneath the surface in the lives of many adults.”

There are three different narratives in the short video, all pulled together by one common tragic event. I didn’t see it ending the way it did. Today she announced the release of her debut album, “Before We Forgot How to Dream,” which will come out on June 2nd.

SOAK – ” B A Nobody ” Womans Hour Remix

Posted: December 22, 2014 in MUSIC
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For such a young artist SOAK still in her teens a confident, exuberant, ebullient performer. These are all traits which seem to effortlessly transfer to her studio projects.
New single ‘B A NoBody’ is out now, a gorgeous piece of songwriting with lyrics that display a rare sense of maturity. With her sweet voice and nagging melodic hooks, ‘B A NoBody’ isn’t perhaps the most obvious choice to gain the remix treatment.
However Woman’s Hour have stepped into the breach with a re-work which adds something truly new. SOAK’s vocals seem to fall into a bubblebath of synths, the Kendal band applying some gorgeous electronics to her sparse arrangement.Quite distinct from the original, it displays another potential direction for the Northern Irish singer to follow.
Silken-voiced 17-year-old singer-songwriter Soak (aka Bridie Monds-Watson, from Derry) has found her Cat Powerish crooning feted by Chvrches – who signed her to their Goodbye Records label ahead of her current deal with Rough Trade – and lauded as the next phase of Beach House-style chillwave.