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June 3, 2022

Thomas Isbister – #8: 13th Floor Album Review

Thomas Isbister could be the most prolific musician in New Zealand with #8 being his ninth album in just over two years. Like the paintings which grace all the covers, it is music of Impressionist textures and ambience. Rather than the immediate gratification of a sugar burst of Pop earworms, the hooks reveal themselves on […]

June 18, 2021

13th Floor Album Review: Thomas Isbister – #5

Marty Duda

The first impression listening to Thomas Isbister’s brand-new album is Beatles. Specifically, 1966 and the switch to studio artists. Revolver to Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. Pop music as myriad and quietly subversive. Psychedelic and hallucinogenic. Unsettling but what a nice trip, and at the end you find yourself in a changed world.