SOAK delivers new track "Swear Jar"

16 May 2022, 15:31 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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SOAK has released new track "Swear Jar" as a third taster of their If I Never Know You Like This Again album.

"Swear Jar" follows previous outings "purgatory" and "last july", and SOAK, real name Bridie Monds-Watson, has also released an acoustic version of their new song.

Monds-Watson says of the track, "I felt so disconnected from myself and life that I was starting to question if I’d ever truly been present or if I’d always been on autopilot."

If I Never Know You Like This Again will follow SOAK's 2019 album Grim Town, and was written during the pandemic.

According to Monds-Watson, their new album is made up of "song-memories". They added, "This record is the most accurate picture of me. I felt no pressure at all, it was almost like I was ranting as I was writing. When I was looking to the past, it was as though I had a big lottery ball of all my recent memories and I would just randomly select which one I wanted to unpack. It helped me to process my past."

"Swear Jar" is out now. SOAK's If I Never Know You Like This Again album will arrive via Rough Trade Records on Friday (20 May), and is available to pre-order now.