Soak: Irish singer on new album and coming out as non-binary 

'For me to come to terms with where I felt on the gender spectrum was difficult. I realised I had a lot of really repressed feelings about that. And internalised transphobia' 
Soak: Irish singer on new album and coming out as non-binary 

Soak is about a to release a new album, If I Never Know You Like This Again. 

Every teenage prodigy stops being a teenager eventually. They usually stop being regarded as a prodigy too. Which is when the problems can start, says Bridie Monds-Watson, aka acclaimed singer-songwriter Soak.

“I hit a wall. When you’re in your twenties, there’s such pressure on you to have everything solved. And to have the future [planned out] out very clearly. And I didn't think I had any of my shit together.”

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