If Isaac Gracie doesn’t walk like a panther, he’s missing a trick. It’s time to drop the bleary-eyed slouch he’s adopted since he emerged in 2015 as pastoral folk’s answer to Jeff Buckley (and bagged a deal with Virgin EMI off the back of one Soundcloud demo of 'Last Words') and get his Tony Christie on, at least if his new track 'The Death Of You And I' is anything to go by.

It’s certainly something to go buy. Built around a languid retro bongo’n’strum, it sounds like The Last Shadow Puppets, Richard Hawley and Paul Anka relaxing over mojitos in a continental cocktail lounge in 1956, Gracie drooling lines about “running into one another outside a café in Paris” like triple sec down his chin.

Then, about a minute in, Pixies charge into the place, kick over all the tables, string Gracie up by his testes over the optics and leave him there, wailing like Bono in Guantanemo. No amount of subsequent samba sections will restore the louche vibe, but neither will any amount of soaring acoustic epics make us forget that Gracie has surprises like this up his snot-encrusted sleeve. A slinksome star is born.

Isaac Gracie Live:

12 August – Boardmasters, Cornwall
20 September – Het Depot Café, Leuven
22 September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
24 September – Ideal, Copenhagen
25 September – Monarch, Berlin
26 September – Milla, Munich
28 September – Gonzo, Zurich
02 October – Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
04 October – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
05 October - Belgrave Music Hall and Canteen, Leeds
07 October – Neighbourhood Festival, Manchester
09 October – The Cellar, Oxford
10 October – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
11 October – Omeara, London