SOAK unveils new collaboration with Saint Sister's Gemma Doherty "I'm Alive"

"I'm Alive" is SOAK's first release of 2020, and sees Bridie Monds-Watson recite a poem to music created by Gemma Doherty of Saint Sister.

The new track arrives alongside a short film conceptualised by Ellius Grace during the coronavirus lockdown. The film was "created by a number of artists around Ireland during the height of the Coronavirus lockdown as a way of finding solace and purpose in an upside down time."

Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK, says of the new song and film, "Ellius Grace reached out to me during the lockdown with this idea of creating an ‘antidote to anxiety’, with the concept centering around finding beauty in the mundane. I sat down in the up and down waves of isolation, when I let my brain go I started to write about how it feels to ‘wake up’ from a long depression. The relief when a tide starts to turn and things I’d given up on begin to seem possible again. Ellius asked Gemma Doherty to compose the soundtrack and she provided a gentle and gripping bed to speak over. I hope this piece can act as a reminder that it won’t always be like this."

Monds-Watson is yet to follow up her 2019 LP Grim Town.