DITZ (uk)

**DITZ (uk)** ‘Never Exhale’ is the sound of a band that hasn’t stopped for a breath. DITZ have toured relentlessly since the release of their first album ‘The Great Regression’ and even before that, travelling at least 100 days a year since COVID. The songs that form their newest offering were written across Europe, often on off days and in borrowed rehearsal rooms just to break up the long drives. It could be said that the band treat recording and release of music as an afterthought. Often playing songs live years before their release, tweaking them as they go. The songs on the final record may change before they are ever heard as part of the album. Formed in late 2015 and playing their first show the following summer, DITZ came together after vocalist C.A. Francis, guitarist Anton Mocock and bass player Caleb Remnant went to watch METZ and Lightning Bolt and Concorde 2 in Brighton. “Let’s do that.” A few shows in they picked up current guitarist Jack Looker, although his original position was behind the drum kit. After a few singles such as ‘Seeking Arrangement’, ‘Gayboy’ and ‘Total 90’, the band arrived at its current lineup with Sam Evans joining on drums. This was summer 2019. The band embarked on their first proper headline tour at the start of 2020, completing it just before the world shut down. They made use of this time wisely, holing up in the closed pub that Sam lived in an worked at to write parts of their first album. As soon as they could play shows again,