DIE SPITZ SHARE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “POP PUNK ANTHEM (SORRY FOR THE DELAY)”

Austin, Texas four-piece Die Spitz today share a video “Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry For The Delay)”, the ferocious new single from Something to Consume, the band’s debut album out 12th September via Third Man Records.

“Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry For The Delay)” somehow encapsulates elements throughout the band’s large musical swath of inspirations, which range from Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey and the Pixies to Mudhoney and Nirvana, building from roiling verses to a growled chorus. “‘Pop Punk Anthem’ is a story from the perspective of someone being driven to obsessive insanity through limerence towards a person that does not reciprocate the feelings. But mostly it’s just a fun song to pay homage to the great early 2000’s pop punk legends,” Ava Schrobilgen explains.

Something to Consume moves with rapturous conviction thanks in part to the deft production hand of Studio 4’s Will Yip (Turnstile, Mannequin Pussy). Though only recently in their 20s, Die Spitz’s impressive musicianship ties them clearly to a long lineage of frustrated people hoping to inspire change. “Some people aren’t interested in being political activists via music, but it weighs on me heavily and I feel misaligned with my calling if I don’t,” Chloe De St. Aubin says. “The four of us are free spirits with multiple interests, and there’s no limit or power dynamic that can derail us.”

The single follows a hugely successful debut run of dates in the UK and EU, including a glowing five star review from Louder – “if you haven’t seen the best new band in the world live yet, you really, really, really should” – for their sold-out London headliner at The Dome.

Die Spitz will be again taking their riotous live show on the road this fall on a tour that includes support dates with Viagra Boys and a headline run in support of Something to Consume, with more dates to be announced on 8/12. All dates below.

The members of Die Spitz are Austin natives, with Schrobilgen and Livingston having met in preschool, befriending Halter in middle school, and immediately bringing De St. Aubin into their inner circle when they formed the band in 2022. The group was initially just looking to find reasons to hang out more often, and decided to start a band after a late-night viewing of the Mötley Crüe movie The Dirt. Though they’ve only been playing together a few years (not to mention Halter only learning to play bass to start the band), Something to Consume shows a maturity and technical prowess always wielded in service of their profound friendship.

The group settled on the name Die Spitz over a “brown bag of Fireball”, opting for the feminine German definite article in place of the English. “It reminds me of the Grim Reaper spitting”, Livingston jokes. At their first live shows, they paired originals with covers from some of their inspirations: Black Sabbath, Pixies, Mudhoney, PJ Harvey, and Nirvana. The beguiling “Pop Punk Anthem” somehow encapsulates elements throughout that large musical swath, building from roiling verses to a growled chorus. “It may sound like a love song at first, but when the beat kicks in it’s the obsession that takes over”, Schrobilgen says. “The words ‘you’re a part of me’ sound loving but it can be an insane emotion and privilege over someone else’s life.”

Across 11 tracks, Something to Consume contains multitudes and yet feels of a singular piece, an expansive and expressive set unified in its camaraderie and freedom. “We depend on our freedom—freedom to do what we want, present the ideas we want, make the music we want”, Livingston says. “Whether it’s based in metal or something soft, no matter which of us wrote the song, we all contribute and work together. As a person, I don’t have a strong ego or voice, but within this band each one of us is capable of so much more.”

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