How’s this for efficiency: on an off day while touring last summer, Brighton noise-punks DITZ channeled all the frustrations of life on the road (not to mention the frenetic energy of the music they were feeding off of while in the tour van) into a new single, which they’re releasing today as the latest installment of Suicide Squeeze Records’ Pinks & Purples digital singles series. “Riverstone” pushes beyond the composure of much of the band’s catalog, ultimately landing somewhere between the tension-mounting no-wave of Gilla Band and the more refined freakout-noise of Model/Actriz.
Vocalist Cal Francis explains that the burnout the band was feeling was easily transformed into the industrial pounding of “Riverstone” due to a new piece of gear. “Caleb [Remnant] had recently bought this Sub Phatty and had taken it with him, so we were trying to find any way to make it fit in a track. I think we were listening to lots of Death Grips and hardcore that week.”
Also similar to Gilla Band, the track’s subject matter takes the form of a seemingly stream-of-consciousness rant concerning anything that was pressing on Francis at the moment. “The lyrics were related to whatever we were talking shit about that day. Dirt-cheap ’baccy and annoying, invasive TikToks. It’s hard to recall.”
Check out the tune below.
