Ist Ist

Manchester quartet Ist Ist effectively channel the brooding post-punk of seminal bands like Joy Division, bringing the sound of the genre into the 21st century with an electronic twist. Ist Ist was formed in 2014 by vocalist/guitarist Adam Houghton, bassist Andy Keating, and drummer Joel Kay; later they added keyboardist Mat Peters. From the beginning the band had a defiantly D.I.Y. attitude. Doing everything themselves, they built up buzz gradually through word of mouth, maintaining a purely functional social media presence and releasing a series of extremely limited-edition...