Isaac Dunbar’s new EP ‘evil twin’ - out now - is a good ‘un. Words: Sam Taylor. Photo: Harshvardhan Shah.

Up-and-coming pop star, and very funny chap on ‘the Twitters’, Massachusetts teen Isaac Dunbar is kickstarting a whole new era with his third EP, ‘evil twin’. A super confident batch of tracks that ooze with attitude and jaw-dropping twists and turns, it’s about “all of the emotions that make up the concept of love,” he explains.

Hi Isaac! How’s it going? What are you up to today? Hello! I’m alright thank you for asking. I have to do homework and then get açaí packets from Trader Joe’s. I also have to record vocals. Tell us about your new EP then - what inspired ‘evil twin’? It’s broadly about love, right?

My EP is about the two sides of me that conflicted during the culmination process of each song. The “evil twin” side of me wanted to flood the project with experimental, angry, and colder records, while the other side wanted to make melodramatic and lovey-dovey pop records, so I put the two together. I think the duality is really cool and breaks down the limitations of cohesiveness because that whole concept really brings me down sometimes.

How does this EP compare to your first two? The press blurb says it “kicks off the next era of Isaac Dunbar”? This EP, I would say, gives you a better sense of the type of music I’m going to put out in the future.