Soak returns with new single "Everybody Loves You"

We are thrilled to announce the return of SOAK, aka 22 year old Bridie Monds-Watson, who today shares her stunning new single “Everybody Loves You”.

Buy/stream “Everybody Loves You” here.

The track is the first sight of new SOAK material since her 2015 critically-acclaimed debut album, ‘Before We Forgot How To Dream’. One of the Mercury Prize’s youngest ever nominees, the record also won the prestigious Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year, the Northern Irish Music Prize, saw SOAK shortlisted for a Q Award (‘Best New Act’), as well as taking home the European Border Breaker Award.

With a soundscape simultaneously bigger yet closer than ever – experimental, but more direct – “Everybody Loves You” (writes Bridie) “is a song about extreme denial. More specifically about my stubborn ability to convince myself I don’t want something that I do and blind my rational thought process – I suppose in this case, as a way of self-protection (and avoiding vulnerability). The lift at the end of the song (“Everybody wants you, And I do too”) represents the almost comedic/foolish acceptance of my own feelings. A 360 turn of events in which I then so desperately want all that I had rejected and pushed away. A consistent theme of my younger self.”

Bridie has also confirmed a handful of intimate live shows in the UK and Ireland for next month, tickets for which go on sale this Friday 5th October.

Live Dates

November 26th – Belfast, Oh Yeah

November 27th – Dublin, The Grand Social

November 28th – Manchester, Jimmy’s NQ

November 29th – London, Omeara