22-year-old British musician Isaac Gracie has the world at his feet. Growing up in Ealing, the son of poet, Judith Gracie, Isaac wrote his first songs at the age of fourteen. Inspired by familiar greats in the Buckleys, Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan, Isaac had an instinctive knack for writing a devastating melody, and a voice honed to precision.
Studying English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Isaac uploaded a self-produced Garageband demo to BBC Introducing in the Summer of 2015. The song in question was called Last Words, a dusty lament aided by the crackle and hiss of inexperience, and over a million plays later, its creator’s journey is about to get started. The track was picked up by the likes of Huw Stephens, Annie Mac, Zane Lowe and John Kennedy, and a slew of intro pieces in publications followed.
The years of choral practice instilled into that voice from an early age as a young member of Ealing’s Abbey Choir, resonates here with anxiety and wit. Never too much, never too forced. There’s emotion without the emoting. It’s the sound of a young artist with talent still raw, but what a talent it is!
“One of Britain’s most astonishingly talented songwriters” - NME
“A poetic creature who channels a mysticism, haloing his sounds with a timeless quality” – i-D
