IST IST staked their claim as one of Manchester, UK’s most essential acts with their 2020 debut full length, Architecture, a record that struck an eerie resonance with the times and arrived like the sound of a new dawn for the City. Whilst that album was created as something of a labour of love for IST IST over a period of five years, its follow-up, The Art of Lying, is an altogether more instantaneous affair; a direct reaction to everything that has unfolded since. An album of power-struggles and subterfuge, utopian ideals and dystopian regimes, across its ten tracks The Art of Lying whispers tales of crumbling societies and corrupt governments; of truth and lies, love and death, oppression and resistance. Written and recorded throughout 2020’s multiple lockdowns, The Art of L...