Name: DITZ
Start: 2025-03-29T19:00:00Z
End: 2025-03-29T23:00:00Z
Location: Voodoo Daddy's

DITZ

Drongo Records

Ditz are coming to Norwich as part of their new album tour - 'Never Exhale'

Voodoo Daddy's

Support comes from The Breedling &amp; Sebbuku 'Never Exhale’ is the sound of a band that hasn’t stopped for a breath. DITZ have touredrelentlessly since the release of their first album ‘The Great Regression’ and even beforethat, travelling at least 100 days a year since COVID. The songs that form their newestoffering were written across Europe, often on off days and in borrowed rehearsal rooms justto break up the long drives.It could be said that the band treat recording and release of music as an afterthought. Oftenplaying songs live years before their release, tweaking them as they go. The songs on thefinal record may change before they are ever heard as part of the album.‘Never Exhale’ was largely recorded at Holy Mountain studios in London during a freezingcold January. The process was fraught with obstacles. The original plan, to go and record inRhode Island, was abandoned when DITZ were offered a support tour with IDLES, althoughthe album was still mixed by the originally intended engineer, Seth Manchester(Model/Actriz, Lingua Ignota, Big Brave). The result is an album hardened by the pressure ofits own making. Laboured but not loved.The album themes reveal themselves more on further listens. The opening gambit ‘TaxiMan’ is an exploration into what it would be like to weigh up your impact of the world. Theeponymous taxi man could be seen as a St Peter type figure, or like Charon, ferrying thedead into the underworld.Further on the album explores themes of unnecessary hatred and division, ‘Space/Smile’and ‘It smells like something died in here’, aging, ‘Senor Siniestro’ and the separation of thephysical from reality, ‘The Body As A Structure’. It’s political, but ultimately personal. MoreGenet or Kafka than Orwell or Huxley.Sonically the album has its roots in the usual DITZ influences, classic noise rock such asThe Jesus Lizard or Shellac, or the obtuse post punk of the Fall, but also brings in freshinfluences. The closing track ‘Britney’ could be compared to Radiohead or Mogwai. Overall,the album is a clear development from their first effort. A sign of things to come.

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