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Earlier this month, Isaac Gracie brought out his most energetic track to date, 'The Death of You and I'. Now he has a video to accompany it that you can see on Gigwise below
The video sees Gracie's actions mirror the dynamics of the song: it starts out relatively slow with sweeping close ups of the grunge-y bedroom troubador and shots of his trusty Rickenbacker. Then when it hits fifth gear mania sets in and he starts exercising the number one rock 'n' roll cliche: smashing up a room.
But it's done in a crass way. It's spectacularly art directed and feels quite sensitively linked to the theme of lonely, troubled artist.
Gigwise's Steven Kline has this to say about the track:"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."
If Isaac Gracie is 'your bag' then you'l be pleased to hear he has an EP on the way via Virgin EmI called The Death Of You & I. This EP, out 29 September, follows a live EP and self-recorded one.
To coincide with this he has annoucned that his headline Omeara show has sold out and he's jumping from that tiny Mumford and Sons owned haunt (it's better there than it sounds) to BrixtonAcademy thanks to being asked on a tour with Australia's incredible Andgus and Julia Stone.
Check out the dates below.
22nd September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
2nd October – Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
4th October – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
5th October - Belgrave Music Hall and Canteen, Leeds
7th October – Neighbourhood Festival, Manchester
9th October – The Cellar, Oxford
10th October – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
11th October – Omeara, London SOLD OUT
12th October – Forest National. Brussels (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
13th October – Hegel Saal, Stuttgart (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
15th October – AFAS Live, Amsterdam (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
16th October – Rockhal, Luxembourg (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
17th October – Zenith, Lille (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
19th October – Zenith, Toulouse (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
21st October – Espace Medoquine, Bordeaux (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
23rd October – La Riviera, Madrid (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
24th October – Razzmatazz, Barcelona (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
25th October - Le Dome, Marseille (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
26th October – Samsung Hall, Zurich (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
28th October – Arena, Geneva (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
29th October – Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
30th October – Columbiahalle, Berlin (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
1st November – Zenith, Paris (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
2nd November – Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
3rd November – Zenith, Munich (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
5th November – Sporthalle, Hamburg (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
7th November – O2 Academy, Brixton (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
8th November – O2 Ritz, Manchester (w/ Angus & Julia Stone)
