Name: The Great Regression
Brand: Ditz

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ALCOPOP235X

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Colour

pink

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2022-09-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5023903288257

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / pink

Artist

Ditz

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Alcopop

Abrasive but accessible,<i> The Great Regression</i> is set to be one of the most important British guitar debuts of 2022. Post – Punk political and literary messages throughout this explosive album, recorded by Ben Hampson and mastered by Kate Tavini.

Themes of insecurity and gender pop up a lot over the course of the album, as well as lots of references to the human body breaking and being harmed in unnatural ways, although there’s no one overarching concept, simply because the songs have come together over such a long period of time. The title is not so much a reference to society going backwards, but more the band’s penchant for childish jokes. “Sitting in a van all day can get silly,” laughs Cal. That’s not to say <i>The Great Regression</i> is in any way light-hearted. It’s full of anger, rage and despair. ‘Three’ takes some text from Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 sci-fi novel Solaris and applies it to the hollow activism of everyone from big corporations to middle class uni students.

Other literary touchstones include Sylvia Plath, William Burroughs and Hubert Selby Jr, but even more influential is the band’s ever-growing pile of equipment. “We spent a lot of time during the recording process just trying to make unusual sounds out of pedals, or whatever we could find,” says Cal.

The Great Regression

Music GB