Our editor’s pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past seven days is Ist Ist‘s debut Architecture – revisit the 8/10 review and check out the album via Spotify:
“Spoiler alert: this record is unlikely to lift your mood.”
“If you listen to music as an act of escapism (we all do), but also for its capacity to feel swathes of joy rather than recognition or melancholy, Ist Ist are not the band for you right now.”
“The Mancunians have taken their time over this debut. Operating since 2015, the steps taken to get to this point are familiar yet different: as most bands do, the four-piece cut their teeth on stage, but had both the gumption and the nous to release limited edition CDR bootlegs of these gigs which financed their early recorded work in the form of EPs which then, in turn, paid for Architecture.”
“Thinking further outside the box, the band have drip-fed tracks from the album over the last few weeks – similar to the traditional format of singles, but for every track. Whilst the approach is risky, the way the music industry is moving it was only a matter time before someone went the whole hog. Such clarity of thought and focus is apparent in the music itself, and is there from the off.”
