A beautiful, delicate, poignant indie-folk number about metaphorically finding things in common and friendship by the Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, out on Rough Trade Records.
Monds-Watson explains: “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.”
It follows their 2024 viral collaboration with Fred Again.. on the track ‘just stand there’ which has been played over 25 million times. SOAK’s last album was 2022’s If I Never Know You Like This Again which followed 2019’s Grim Town and their Mercury-nominated 2015 debut Before We Forgot How to Dream. SOAK are currently on tour, including a slot supporting Pulp on Rough Trade’s 50th Anniversary event at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 18 July.
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The snow came down like a demolition
Threw a rug on the road
from mine to St. Stephens
I can admit there were stars in my eyes
You were hedging your bets on
how many necks the ice would break
We never had much in common,
in common you and I
That’s something about us,
I’ve always liked
As the years fly as time
tries to take us from ourselves
I’m never, never, never
gonna let you forget
You’ve been saving those whales
I’ve been driving that band
We’re always calling from truck
stops in the middle of nowhere
And I never thought
I’d ever say greetings
from the bible belt
That’s where you told me someones
gonna pay to see you dead
Can we just compare our death valley t-shirts and fridge magnets?
Are you still with me?
We never had much in common,
in common you and I
That’s something about us,
I’ve always liked
As the years fly as time
tries to take us from ourselves
I’m never, never, never
gonna let you forget
Never, never, never
gonna let you forget
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