Reviewer: Sarah Jamieson
Released: 12th September 2025
Label: Third Man
Having performed alongside Amyl and the Sniffers and Sleater-Kinney, and being signed by Jack White’s Third Man Records, it's evident that the Austin, Texas quartet Die Spitz has immersed themselves in the right scene since their inception in 2022. While their intense live performances are well-known, it is their debut album, ‘Something To Consume’, that truly showcases their artistic vision. Far from being rough or unpolished, ‘Throw Yourself To The Sword’ delivers a relentless sound, drawing closer to the heavy metal vibes of Pantera and Black Sabbath. In contrast, ‘Sound To No One’ offers a sludgy yet hypnotic experience reminiscent of Deftones. Meanwhile, the audacious swagger of ‘Down On It’ adds a lighthearted touch, before the hazy finale ‘a strange moon / selenophilia’ concludes the album on an ambient yet impactful note. This is a bold and uncompromising debut.
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Hello, I’m Byron, and I consider ADAS to be a four-letter word.
No, that’s not something your phone can translate. ADAS stands for "Advanced Driver Assistance Systems," which is a vague term that encompasses any software-based safety mechanism that provides a digital buffer between you and your surroundings. Systems like lane keeping assist, automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control—and even Tesla’s so-called Full Self-Driving—fall under this category. In general, I’m not a fan of any of them.
It’s not that they are inherently bad—though one could argue otherwise from a behavioral perspective. My issue lies with their tendency to overstep their role, intervening when they are neither necessary nor appreciated. Few things are as annoying as battling against an electronic assistant trying to protect me from myself.
Imagine this:
You’re driving on a two-lane rural road and enter a small town. Approaching a busy district, you encounter a delivery truck blocking your lane. There’s no oncoming traffic, so you cautiously steer your car into the opposite lane to pass.
BEEP BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP BEEP!
That's your lane departure warning, of course. Now the lane keeping assist is attempting to nudge the steering wheel back to the right, despite the parked truck in the way. You rapidly steer left again, overriding the system. Then you complete your pass and continue on your way. Or, if you’re like me, you end up spending five minutes scrolling through menus trying to figure out how you forgot to disable that feature.
But there’s a newcomer in town, dressed in blue and white. It’s BMW! And its “superbrain” architecture is just what I need right now. Its superpower? Bestowing its new ADAS suite with the distinctive ability to do nothing at all. And no, I don’t mean you can turn it off; that capability is nearly a given. While I’m sure BMW has enhanced its object detection abilities and reduced false alarms, that’s not what I mean either.
I’m referring to a system that can essentially read your mind—or at least your eyes—well enough to know when it should act like a reformed back-seat driver and, well, stay quiet.
Let’s revisit that scenario, but this time we’re in a BMW Neue Klasse of some kind.
We approach the truck, systems fully active, and attempt the same maneuver, but this time, nothing occurs. Why? Because BMW has fine-tuned its software to recognize signs of intent.
When you scan for oncoming traffic in the adjacent lane, BMW’s eye sensor—capable of monitoring driver attention and even detecting early signs of drowsiness—catches your glance. When this look is paired with a corresponding steering motion, the system understands you’re acting deliberately. Unless it identifies a clear immediate safety hazard in your new direction, it won’t trigger any alarms or adjust your steering.
Instead? Silent compliance. Or, as I prefer to call it, the dream.
BMW’s new logic also facilitates smoother transitions between manual and autonomous driving modes, essentially removing the need to toggle them at all; the car will respond to inputs by relinquishing control to the driver. This only scratches the surface of what BMW's new electrical architecture is capable of; anticipate further intelligent system integration in the future.
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