In October, SOAK released the lead single, ‘Everybody Loves You,’ off her untitled sophomore album.

The single is the first sight of new SOAK material since 2015's critically-acclaimed debut album, Before We Forgot How To Dream. The Northern Irish singer is one of the Mercury Prize's youngest ever nominees. Her debut record won the prestigious Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year, the Northern Irish Music Prize, and was shortlisted for a Q Award ('Best New Act'), as well as taking home the European Border Breaker Award. She will release the follow up next year.

'Everybody Loves You', she says: "is a song about extreme denial. More specifically about my stubborn ability to convince myself I don’t want something that I do and blind my rational thought process - I suppose in this case, as a way of self-protection (and avoiding vulnerability). The lift at the end of the song ("Everybody wants you, And I do too") represents the almost comedic/foolish acceptance of my own feelings. A 360 turn of events in which I then so desperately want all that I had rejected and pushed away. A consistent theme of my younger self."

Still just 22 years old, 'Everybody Loves You' might firmly shake off any shackles of the skating teenage tomboy who first introduced herself with the timeless 'Sea Creatures', but it retains that alchemy of old-soul wisdom and youthful positivity which are quintessentially SOAK's own.

SOAK plays The Button Factory May 20, 2019. Tickets cost €20 inclusive of booking fee and go on sale Friday at 9AM.

Stream 'Everybody Loves You' below:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Lvf5GlhttOjIpy8taWLeV?si=3ZXizfW7RGe8m2Abt1aC4w