“‘Grim Town’ is about two spaces – one physical, one psychological. In part it’s a paean to extraordinarily gifted 22-year-old songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson’s hometown of Derry (like many of us, she has a love-hate relationship with the site of her formative years), while the title more specifically refers to a melancholic state of mind. “If something’s a bit shit, me and my friends say ‘it’s grim”
“SOAK takes a bold step forward on Grim Town”
“Northern Irish singer/songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson has achieved a lot at a young age. She released her 2015 debut album Before We Forgot How to Dream at age 18, which won Ireland’s Choice Music Prize and received a Mercury Prize nomination. Unsurprisingly, her 2019 follow-up Grim Town is about growing up—literally and emotionally. This growth takes shape in a place called Grim Town—a stomping gr”
“On her second album, the Northern Irish musician graduates from lonesome singer-songwriter to bold art-pop auteur; her growing confidence translates to emotionally probing songs of startling candor.”
“Grim Town is a concept in itself: it is a fictitious location, an embodiment of feeling that has been brought to life by the sentiment and memory that revolve around it. Through it, SOAK is able to explore emotion and turn it into something tangible. ”
