Brooklyn’s genre-melting rock collective ISTA have finally let the signal fly. The band’s explosive new full-length, In Sound To All, is officially out everywhere today, and it arrives with a suitably cinematic calling card: a 70’s noir-inspired official music video for the synth-powered funk workout “Crusher,” shot on location on California’s Catalina Island.

Produced by longtime collaborator Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby, Rhett Miller, Curtis Harding), In Sound To All is the fullest realization yet of ISTA’s bicoastal vision — a record that feels like it was beamed in from somewhere between a Ken Kesey Acid Test and a sweaty New Year’s Eve at Studio 54. Garage rock, classic funk, disco, electronic textures, and punk all collide here, stitched together by fuzzed-out riffs, deep grooves, and harmonies that shimmer just on the right side of unhinged. As It’s Psychedelic Baby put it, “ISTA is a rock and roll love bomb… a power plant of psychedelic garage rock energy engineered to power every house capable of receiving the signal.”

“Crusher” is a perfect entry point. Built around a Moog riff so singular that frontman Rex Costello admits he can no longer reproduce it (“we ended up sampling those parts from the demo, then proceeded to add all the fuzzy bass and guitars on top”), the track sat as a three-year-old curiosity before the band finally cracked it open for the new record. The mantra at its core is pure ISTA: “Love is the fear crusher.”

Director Erez Horovitz (Fruit Bats, Josh Ritter, Yellowbirds) matches that energy with a video that plays like a lost 70’s detective flick. Catalina Island stands in as a hazy, mysterious backdrop while Costello — mustache and all — stalks the frame like a Gene Hackman understudy auditioning for Night Moves. “The place is a mystery in itself,” Horovitz says, and the footage proves him right.

Watch the official music video for “Crusher” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ISTA+Crusher+official+music+video

Founded in 2019 by West Coast transplants Rex Costello (vocals, guitar) and Oliver Hart (guitar), ISTA has grown from a Brooklyn studio experiment into a full-bodied live unit featuring Evan Eubanks (drums), Diona West (bass, vocals), Chloe Golding (keys, backing vocals), and Dan Rico (guitar), plus a rotating cast of collaborators. The band celebrated the album’s release with a sold-out show at New York City’s Night Club 101, with more tour dates promised soon.

In Sound To All is loaded with highlights beyond “Crusher.” FLOOD tagged “Gods In Heat” as a “neo-psych blues-rock rager built upon blown-out riffs and a backing bed of buzzing synths,” while KCRW named “Waves” among their Best of 2025. Add in “Up To Chance,” “Low Fruit,” “Aim For The Heart,” and “Megawatt,” and you’ve got a record that earns its ambitious title — this thing really does seem engineered to be in sound to all.

Tracklist — In Sound To All:
1. Gods In Heat
2. Megawatt
3. Crusher
4. Low Fruit
5. Velatropa 24
6. Waves
7. Aim For The Heart
8. MT-EM45
9. Funkyluminati
10. Human Nature
11. Up To Chance
12. Sea Of Stars

Stream, purchase, and crank In Sound To All wherever you get your music, and for tour updates head to http://www.istasound.com/tour. If you can hear it, you can feel it.