| Grim Town | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 26 April 2019 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 53:49 | |||
| Label | Rough Trade | |||
| Soak chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Grim Town | ||||
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100 [6] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [7] |
| Clash | 7/10 [8] |
| DIY |  [9] |
| Exclaim! | 7/10 [1] |
| Paste | 7.4/10 [10] |
| Pitchfork | 7.3/10 [2] |
Grim Town is the second studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Soak. It was released on 26 April 2019 under Rough Trade Records. [11]
Grim Town received generally favourable reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 12 reviews. [6]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "All Aboard" | 1:29 |
| 2. | "Get Set Go Kid" | 4:19 |
| 3. | "Everybody Loves You" | 3:20 |
| 4. | "Knock Me Off My Feet" | 3:08 |
| 5. | "Maybe" | 4:31 |
| 6. | "Fall Asleep/Backseat" | 3:27 |
| 7. | "Crying Your Eyes Out" | 4:01 |
| 8. | "I Was Blue, Technicolour Too" | 3:59 |
| 9. | "Déjà Vu" | 3:12 |
| 10. | "Scrapyard" | 2:46 |
| 11. | "Valentine Shmalentine" | 4:01 |
| 12. | "YBFTBYT" | 2:35 |
| 13. | "Life Trainee" | 3:54 |
| 14. | "Missed Calls" | 5:01 |
| 15. | "Nothing Looks the Same" | 4:06 |
"Knock Me Off My Feet" was used in the Amazon Original Series Invincible Episode 6 "You Look Kinda Dead", In which Mark and Amber take a tour of Upstate University and have an impromptu date.
| Chart (2019) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Irish Albums (IRMA) [12] | 66 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [13] | 64 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC) [14] | 20 |
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