SOAK

‍SOAK - Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson - has announced a new record today titled decembers, out December 4, 2026 via Rough Trade Records. They are sharing the title track today alongside a visualizer by Cuan Roche. .

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 Monds-Watson 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.

decembers follows stand-alone single ‘death valley fridge magnet’ and SOAK’s 2024 viral collaboration with Fred Again.. on the track ‘just stand there’ which has been played over 25 million times. Their last album was 2022’s If I Never Know You Like This Again which followed 2019’s Grim Town and their Mercury-nominated 2015 debut Before We Forgot How to Dream. They have toured extensively across the US and Europe, including performances at Glastonbury, SXSW, Primavera and Other Voices, and as support for Julien Baker, Modest Mouse, Lucy Dacus, Pulp, The Lumineers and more.