SOAK – decembers
Can you actually go home again? Bridie Monds-Watson spent a long time trying to prove Thomas Wolfe wrong on that one, before deciding the fight wasn’t worth living for. “In a way, I think decembers is about forgiveness,” they say, and the title track carries that idea as the first real look at SOAK’s fourth album, a record shaped by a stretch when an autoimmune disease kept them from singing at all. It moves from American roads to frosty Dublin nights and back home to Derry, and the song arrives with a visualiser by Cuan Roche, following June’s death valley fridge magnet (W26). The album is out December 4 on Rough Trade. Soft-spoken, unhurried, and very welcome.
Tour dates
United States (supporting The Barr Brothers)
- October 28: Brattleboro, VT, The Stone Church
- October 29: New York, NY, Bowery Ballroom
- October 30: Providence, RI, The Met
United Kingdom (February 2027)
- February 5: Newcastle, The Cluny
- February 6: Sheffield, Hallamshire Hotel
- February 7: Manchester, YES
- February 9: Bristol, Strange Brew
- February 10: London, Bush Hall
- February 11: Leeds, Hyde Park Book Club
- February 13: Glasgow, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
Ireland (February 2027)
- February 17: Belfast, Empire
- February 18: Dublin, Button Factory
- February 19: Limerick, Dolan’s
- February 20: Cork, St Luke’s
Europe (February 2027)
- February 24: Paris, FR, Le Hasard Ludique
- February 25: Antwerp, BE, Trix
- February 26: Amsterdam, NL, Paradiso
- February 28: Berlin, DE, Mikropol
