SOAK, Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, has announced new record today titled decembers, which will be out on December 4, 2026,through Rough Trade Records. They are sharing the title track today alongside a visualizer shot by Cuan Roche as well. On decembers, we travel with SOAK on the road through America, walk the frost-glistened paths of Dublin at night, search for a meteor in Portugal, and return home to Derry, Ireland. Everywhere, here is an artist evolving, exploring, releasing themselves, coming undone and eventually, becoming.
Born out of literal silence as SOAK contended with an autoimmune disease that prevented them from singing, it was the absence of sound that birthed the Derry artist’s most sonically and lyrically remarkable album to date. “When I try to describe the album,” Monds-Watson explains, “I always go back to a quote from Thomas Wolfe’s novel You Can’t Go Home Again where he says ‘You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love… back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time.”
Decembers Track List
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