Isaac Martinez

“I’m working to become a better person for my [family]. Music is the major side quest, you know?”

 

Denver-based musician Isaac Martinez is the man behind this candid remark. It is a compelling truth about the reality of life for any successful father who is also a songwriter seeking success.

 

Summing up Martinez’s ceaselessly creative and complicated career is nearly impossible. He began composing songs at the age of 11, appropriated the guitar his father had bought for his sister soon after, and was studying the instrument in a conservatory by high school.

 

Martinez is prolific to the point of confusion, and his tendency to obsessively work on material for years in a multitude of genres, then release it, and then mysteriously wipe it from the internet, is part of his artistic charm.

 

Regardless, some tunes are too important not to last.

 

For the first time, following years of operating under aliases, more than a dozen DIY releases since 2016 alone, and a detour to Los Angeles that spawned a Brockhampton-and-Beatles-inspired band [True Fiction] that had just enough momentum after four years to justify an implosion, Martinez has finally [begun releasing] the work he is most proud of.