When the Venn diagram of passion, friendship, identity, and artistry collide, it can feel as if

fighting words are spitting from your veins. And as postmodern society crumbles, Die Spitz

giddily bounce between a dozen different ways to push back. If the world of rock music were an

ice cream shop, the Austin quartet have sampled each flavor, flipped the freezer over, and

started dancing with the employees they helped unionize. On their debut album, Something to

Consume (due Sept 12 via Third Man Records), Ava Schrobilgen, Chloe De St. Aubin, Ellie

Livingston, and Kate Halter fight against the inescapable consumption that surrounds life.

“There’s a political side to it, but addiction and love can also be all-consuming,” Livingston says.

And as the foursome trade off instruments, swapping songwriting and vocal duties, and

generating powerful songwriting in concussive bursts, Die Spitz have created their own little

pocket of the world where we can all stand on the edge together.

That unity comes in part from the deep bonds between the 22-year-olds. All four 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.