Before We Forgot How to Dream

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Before We Forgot How to Dream
Before We Forgot How to Dream.jpg
Studio album by
Released29 May 2015
Genre Indie folk, dream pop
Length42:23
Label Rough Trade
Soak chronology
Before We Forgot How to Dream
(2015)
Grim Town
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Clash 7/10 [3]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Exclaim! 7/10 [5]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Before We Forgot How to Dream is the debut album by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Soak. The album was released on 29 May 2015 under Rough Trade Records. It was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize. [7]

Contents

It subsequently won the Choice Music Prize on Thursday 3 March 2016.

Artwork

The artwork for the album was provided by Irish artist Jack Coulter. The CD booklet and vinyl sleeve consists of three of Coulter's photographs and two of his original paintings. [8]

The front cover is a photograph of SOAK taken by Joshua Halling. [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bridie Monds-Watson

No.TitleLength
1."My Brain"1:03
2."B a noBody"4:48
3."Blud"2:45
4."Wait"3:58
5."Sea Creatures"3:12
6."A Dream to Fly"0:57
7."24 Windowed House"3:58
8."Garden"3:10
9."Shuvels"3:25
10."Hailstones Don't Hurt"3:09
11."Reckless Behaviour"3:16
12."If Everyone Is Someone – No One Is Everyone"1:04
13."Oh Brother"4:28
14."Blind"2:20

Charts

Chart performance for Before We Forgot How to Dream
Chart (2015)Peak
position
Irish Albums (IRMA) [10] 19
UK Albums (OCC) [11] 37

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