SOAK shares mindfulness track 'I'm Alive' with Saint Sister's Gemma Doherty

24-year-old Derry singer-songwriter SOAK (real name Bridie Monds-Watson) has gifted her fans with a spoken word track set to music by Saint Sister's Gemma Doherty to bring a sense of peace into the music world.

A meditation of mindfulness 'I'm Alive' was conceived by photographer Ellius Grace.

In a recent press release, SOAK explained how Grace came to her with the track idea as “an ‘antidote to anxiety,'” which led to her writing a poem based on “finding beauty in the mundane.”

The impactful poem was then set to Doherty’s music and played over a Cian McKenna-filmed video.

“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.”

SOAK's stunning debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream came out five years ago in May, with the Northern Irish singer later releasing Grim Town in 2019.