DITZ - The Great Regression (2022) Hi-Res

Brighton's music scene continues to move. After talking about The Kooks or The Big Moon, here comes DITZ. The quintet formed in 2015 and had released a handful of EPs that allowed them to make a name for themselves on the scene. After having had a certain success, they will devastate everything in their path with their first long-format called The Great Regression.

And as much to tell you that with DITZ, it moves hard. It is by intelligently combining noise-rock and post-punk that the Brighton quintet will come to impose themselves with their originality with fierce and dark titles from the first titles "Clocks" and "Ded Wurst" to riffs metallic and abrasive rhythm section. Closer to Deftones and Slipknot than Gilla Band and Idles, the five members will wring their audience's neck whether it's on heavy fireworks like "Summer Of The Shark" and "I Am Kate Moss".

The Great Regression puts us in cold sweats from start to finish. And that's where DITZ's talent shines because the frantic rhythms and oppressive riffs will quickly become their trademark with the deliberately chaotic "Instinct" and "Teeth" surfing the wave of Refused as well as At The Drive-In. When we thought we had heard everything, they will come and knock us out with the crazy and very enraged epic conclusion of the name of "No Thanks, I'm Full" as catchy as an emotional roller coaster for a good seven minutes. Now we understand better why Joe Talbot became a fanboy listening to this authentic, cathartic and overpowering first album.