ISTA is a Brooklyn-born collective whose music moves like a family gathering in outer space: garage-rock grit, fuzzed-out disco shimmer, deep-groove psychedelia, and communal energy all colliding on the dance floor. Fronted by Rex Costello and Diona West, the band power-clashes genres into something kinetic and technicolor — equal parts rock show, ritual, and cosmic party. Formed in 2019, ISTA has grown into a many-limbed live band built around Costello’s vocals, guitar, synths, and percussion, West’s vocals and bass, Oliver Hart’s guitar, Evan Eubanks’ drums, Chloe Golding’s keys, Dan Rico’s rhythm guitar, and a rotating cast of collaborators. Their new album, In Sound To All, produced with Sam Cohen at Slow Fawn, expands the band’s universe without losing the thing that makes ISTA feel alive: an ecstatic, deeply human energy that invites everyone into the fold.
