Everyone’s at the singer-songwriter game right now it seems. The 20 year old Sam Issac has got a lot going for himself, coming to the end of a busy year which has involved many festivals, tour supports and a split 10” with Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’s Luke Leighfield back in April.
Sideways is a great single for the festive season, dramatic and melancholic with a catchy ba-ba-ba coda. If James Blunt wasn’t all sugary and over-sentimental, he might sound a bit like this. Issac hasn’t got the best voice ever but this is probably for the best as it means he writes better songs rather than trying to sound nice. As he sings in the b-side A Cinematic Low, (which has some strings which would suit the a-side), he writes love songs, and from the sound of this it was recorded on a low budget. Could this be the UK’s answer to Bright Eyes? Only time will tell.
