A group with a real gang mentality, Die Spitz share instruments, swap songwriting and vocal duties seemingly on a whim and tackle subjects including politics, addiction and love. Made up of Austin, Texas natives Ava Schrobilgen, Chloe De St.Aubin, Ellie Livingston, and Kate Halter, the friends decided to form the band following a late night viewing of the Mötley Crüe movie, ‘The Dirt’. They’ve now released debut album, ‘Something to Consume’.

Swathes of feedback signal the start of album opener ‘Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry for the Delay)’. This evolves into more of a shoegazey sound, albeit with Sonic Youth undertones, as Ava pleads ‘Don’t judge me’ and declares ‘I’ll never disappear’. ‘Voir Dire’ opens with woozy bass and intense drums as Chloe takes over on lead vocals and roars: ‘Find a hideaway buried underneath the creature comforts that you crave’.

‘Throw Yourself to the Sword’ harks back to more traditional heavy metal but with the kind of contemporary twist that serves Battlesnake so well – all riffs, scattergun drums and orders to ‘Throw yourself! To the sword’. ‘American Porn’ feels like it could be the album centrepiece with its Hole-esque riffs and My Bloody Valentine-style atmospherics: ‘You know everybody here wants to fuck you’.

‘Sound to No One’ has a chugging bass sound and punky hooks, while ‘Go Get Dressed’ moves into an anthemic alt-rock sound with minimal but hugely important lyrics: ‘Restrain yourself from living but stay away from death, I think I hate this feeling, time to go get dressed’. ‘RIDING WITH MY GIRLS’ (note the importance of the all caps) is a frantic and fuzzy track drenched with defiant, almost celebratory lyrics: ‘I don’t care what you say, I’m gonna ride my life away. And we don’t care what you say. We’re the girls, we’re gonna ride RIDE’.

Recent single ‘Punishers’ is a heartbreaker – ‘You know I want to stay in your world for a night, but it seems to me that things like this never go quite right’ – while the penultimate ‘Down On It’ feels like an ode and tribute to Nirvana (that’s a compliment, by the way). ‘a strange moon/selenophilia’ closes the album in deeply atmospheric fashion, almost like the calm after the storm.

‘Something to Consume’ is an album you’ll be happy to devour.