THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The first few months of 2024 have seen Ist Ist’s growing popularity expand further. Now a full-time band, they played to over 8,000 people across the U.K. and Europe, including a first visit to Scandinavia and the sellout signs going up at multiple German and Dutch shows.
Light A Bigger Fire is the followup to Protagonists, which reached No. 41 in the charts on release in March 2023 and secured them a third set of Top 10 positions in the vinyl, independent and physical charts, as well as the NO. 1 download in the week of release.
Frontman Adam Houghton is clear on what to expect from the album and from Ist Ist in the remainder of 2024 and beyond: “The album title isn’t cryptic in the slightest. Everything we’re doing and have been doing for a while now is going up a level. Live shows have always been our calling card but this record puts our studio output on a par with them. We played five of the new tracks on the recent tour and the reception they got told us that people are going to love this record.
“We’ve always been proud of every album we’ve released but sometimes you come away and wonder whether you’ve left anything in the studio and whether you could have dragged something extra out of some of the songs. Not with this one. Right now this is the best version of us.”
