Daily Edit | Jun 23

SOAK – Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson – has returned with ‘death valley fridge magnet’ on Rough Trade Records, their first new solo song in over four years.

Monds-Watson explains of the new track, “When I wrote ‘death valley fridge magnet’, I was feeling incredibly lost in my life. I’d started having vocal issues and thought my time in music was coming to an end. I think I was trying to make sense of myself and the direction I was headed by painting a picture of the world from where I was standing. In doing so I realised how precious and treasured my friendships are and how my friends remind me of who I am faster than anything else. Even if that’s a two minute long conversation at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere, America, it doesn’t take much and it all adds up.” -Rough Trade

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