Fast-rising Welsh artist Greta Isaac has released her new EP ‘Pessimist’, arriving with the brand new song ‘How To Be A Woman’. Gradually revealed over the last few months, ‘Pessimist’ has seen Greta gain support from critics, including Jack Saunders at Radio 1. Greta will also be performing as part of the Radio 1 Big Weekend of live music later this month.
Talking about ‘How To Be A Woman’ Greta explains: “‘How to Be a Woman’ is like a list of how I found myself navigating the world from a young age. It’s a bit tongue in cheek but really blunt. I’d like for people to see the humour in it even though it’s a pretty heavy topic. It takes the perspective of societal structures that often characterise women as one dimensional and refer to them as inanimate objects… There was a strange comfort for me knowing that this was my list and I just needed to stick to it. Though, the older I get the more I realise that that doesn’t need to be the case. The song is an ongoing conversation in my head: I don’t know what being a woman, being myself, looks like anymore but I do know that I’d never want to be someone who banishes myself from finding out.”
The EP includes a charming song ‘Tomi Losdis Bol’, which Greta recorded when she was just 5 years old: “I used to write stories as a child and ‘Tomi Losdis Bol’ (Phonetically Welsh for Tommy Lost His Ball) is a song rendition of one of them, recorded in my Dad’s studio (that hasn’t been updated since the 70s) when I was 5 years old, along with my two older sisters”
