DITZ announce their forthcoming second album, Never Exhale

Following debut The Great Regression released in 2022, the forthcoming album is a document of what the five-piece have been up to since, as well as where they were when writing and rehearsing the record, mostly between touring. DITZ made use of borrowed rehearsal spaces, sometimes donated by the bands they played with the night before. The plan was to record Never Exhale in a more traditional setting, but was abandoned when they were offered a support tour with IDLES.

"Space/Smile" is a compact first taste of the record, where vocalist C.A. Francis (they/them) says, "I feel like Space/Smile is pretty unique within the album. It’s the shortest track by a fair margin. We’ve kind of become known for using dynamic shifts to create drama in our music and with this track we tried to avoid it. It’s all about the escalation."

C.A. continues on the new album, "Never exhale feels like a logical step from The Great Regression. It’s a document of what we’ve been up to and where we’ve been as we wrote and rehearsed the majority of the album on off days between touring. Making use borrowed rehearsal spaces, sometimes donated by the bands we played with the night before. After that we’d probably debut the newly written song the next night"

It was largely recorded at Holy Mountain studios in London during a freezing cold January, but the process was fraught with obstacles due to touring. They still managed to get the album mixed by the originally intended engineer, Seth Manchester (Model/Actriz, Lingua Ignota, Big Brave), and the result is a record hardened by the pressure of its own making.

The band have also announced a huge tour for 2025, performing in places such as Lisbon, Barcelona, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Leeds, Glasgow, Brighton, Sheffield, and Norwich, as well as a headline at The Garage in London on 3 April 2025.