It’s so hard to keep up. So many artists, so little time. I thought I was fairly well down with the music emerging from Leeds, but must confess Isaac Grinsdale had bypassed me completely until now. Evidently he’s been doing something right, though, selling out his EP lunch night at the Blue Rooms in Huddersfield and getting a thumbs up from John Gomm for his guitar arrangements and compositional skills.
As Grinsdale himself acknowledges, ‘The music itself follows closely in the singer-songwriter tradition’, before adding, ‘However, look closely and you can catch a glimpse of the alternative elements within this record: the complex rhythms, progressive song structures and the unconventional chords that underpin it.’
The material is a shade bland for my tastes, but having said that, Grinsdale clearly knows how to tug at the heartstrings and to create beautifully flowing guitar lines. That he’s also recorded an EP that sounds like a full band all on his own is impressive, and his talents as a multi-instrumentalist are hard to argue with.
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The bottom line is that Isaac Grinsdale does what he does, and it’s hard to criticise him for that: within his chosen field, he’s extremely adept and an artist of quality. Surely bigger things await him.
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