London’s Grace Acladna delivers a beautiful ode to her home city on her second song, a softly glowing gem blooming with enchanting soul. The 22 year old singer songwriter labels the other wordly song as “cosmic pop”, an ambiguous term we’ve seen many times this summer from varying acts. Perhaps the term is less about a literal connotation than a feeling to the music. There is indeed something ethereal and majestic about London, a chiming and floating serenade rooted in a minimalism fleshed out with elements from psychedelica, Balearic pop, soul, electronica, and jazz. London is beautiful and pure, a breathtaking track taken from Grace Acladna’s debut EP, Songs Of The Subsconscious, coming later this summer on Hometown Records.
“Songs of the Subconscious” is the debut release from Grace, a singer, songwriter and producer who makes experimental yet classic-sounding songs combining colorful production with sublime melodies.
The 22 year old Londoner of mixed, Bajan, English and Egyptian heritage has grown up immersed in the worlds of Nina Simone and Bjork and influenced by an eclectic musical education that ranges from 1950's musicals to 90's dub and timeless gospel.
It’s no surprise Grace fell in love with making music given her families rich musical background...Egyptian Choir Mistresses, Bajan gospel singers and a lineage to Halim El-Dabh (her great great uncle is one of the earliest pioneers of electronic music - having composed the first piece of electronic tape music in 1944).
Grace is an artist who steps to her own bounce; writing and producing all her music, creating her own artwork and directing her own videos. With a vibrant experimental pop sound that fuses electronic, nu-soul and subtle tones of psychedelica, she explores a kaleidoscopic music box of ideas across a shifting landscape of genres and moods. Her intricately crafted harmonies and powerful, jazz-dipped vocals belie an unexpected and captivating lyrical sophistication.
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