Isaac Gracie is what people want, at this point

"What do people want at this point?” Isaac Gracie ponders during a break from the mastering of his as-yet-unannounced debut album. It’s a question that’s hard to answer, especially for young, burgeoning solo acts who can quite easily get lost among countless other singer-songwriters, and it’s this thoughtfulness that is Isaac’s greatest weapon.

His appropriately titled debut EP ‘Songs From My Bedroom’ was quite literally that - a bunch of tracks recorded at home using a guitar and GarageBand. What’s come since though has ebbed into frenzied rock, acoustic-folk and whatever’s in between. Which begs the question, where does he fit in?

In all honesty, Isaac doesn’t really know. He’s just Isaac Gracie, a twenty-something from Ealing. “I don’t suppose that I’m breaking too much from convention,” he cooly muses. “But just the mere fact that I don’t know how to clarify where I fall in with these things, or even how I write a song, means there is a little bit of difference there.”

While his standard singer-songwriter influences sear through - your Bob Dylans, Jeff Buckleys et al. - Isaac also takes inspiration from modern muso-type bands such as The National and Parquet Courts, all the way through to everyone’s favourite-to-hate contemporaries Coldplay and Snow Patrol, which he certs as “just massive - melodic.”

“When I first started I was doing demos in my bedroom, and that was the first taste people got,” he starts. “And while it was a good indication of me and my songs, and how, in a minimalist sense, I’d like them to be, it’s not necessarily an indication of how, given the opportunity, I’d like to present it.