IST IST

Due for release on Friday 6th February 2026, the record will be their fifth full-length studio album, and arrives on
the heels of last year’s acclaimed Top 30 effort ‘Light A Bigger Fire’. The release will be supported by an extensive
24-date UK and European tour, including a return to the iconic Paradiso in Amsterdam along with other familiar
territories. The tour will culminate at Manchester’s Albert Hall, a show which will be a homecoming and the band’s
biggest ever headline show.

Prior to the album tour dates, IST IST will be rounding off 2025, the year which marks their first decade as a band,
previewing tracks from ‘DAGGER’ at four UK shows in Leeds, Glasgow, London and Newcastle.
With a swelling fanbase across Europe and some of their biggest UK shows to date on the horizon, the anthemic
quality of ‘DAGGER’ feels destined to cut through even the most capacious of spaces.
Wasting no time to sit on their laurels, IST IST launched into laying down the bones of what would become their
upcoming fifth album:“We started working on the album as soon as we got back from the European tour in late 2024. The momentum you carry from a tour into the studio is powerful and you’re still in that live headspace, so the music you write in
those moments tends to be more visceral. You go with the flow a little bit more rather than it being methodical.
What you end up with is a collection of songs already primed for the stage.”

Alive with ambitions for the band’s next evolutionary stage, IST IST approached esteemed producer Joe Cross
(Hurts, Courteeners, Slow Readers Club), tasking him with creating a conduit with which to conduct their big ideas.
Rekindling the chemistry that had spawned their previous work together, pretty soon, something special began to
materialise from the partnership again. Bass player Andy Keating adds:
“We wanted to make some braver and more brash choices during the recording process. We wanted to make this
record for ourselves first and foremost. There was no agenda beyond capturing the post-tour energy and playing
the sort of things we wanted to listen to. The result of that is our most direct album since our debut
‘Architecture´