DIIV are back. The band’s third full length album, Deceiver, is out now via Captured Tracks. They return to Australia in April. Dates below. Tickets on sale now through Mistletone here. You’d have heard the darkly propulsive ‘Skin’, the melancholic ‘Taker’ and more recently the frenzied ‘Blankenship.’ Now hear them amongst a collection of some of DIIV’s most impressive, and darkest, work yet. Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart....
DIIV reveal new song ‘Blankenship‘ off their forthcoming third full-length album Deceiver out Friday 4 October via Captured Tracks. The song’s ominous bass line and crawling beat devolve into frenetic string bends and vitriolic lyrics that welcome inspection of the song’s namesake. The acerbic song is paired with the band’s first music video in six years, shot in California in Trona Pinnacles, Sequoia National Park, and in Los Angeles; and directed by Sean Stout (Deafheavan, Death Grips, Trash Talk). Preorder...
DIIV reveals new song ‘Taker’ off their forthcoming third full-length album Deceiver out Friday 4 October. A plowing groove and wailing guitar punctuate a lulling apology on the magnetically melancholic track. Rebirth takes place when everything falls apart. On Deceiver DIIV crafts the soundtrack to personal resurrection under the heavy weight of metallic catharsis, upheld by robust guitars and vocal tension that almost snaps, but never quite. The new album...
DIIV are back. Their new album Deceiver it out 4 October through Captured Tracks. Preorder and stream the first single ‘Skin Game‘ here. The band—Zachary Cole Smith [lead vocals, guitar], Andrew Bailey [guitar], Colin Caulfield [bass], and Ben Newman [drums]— return for the first time since 2014’s critically acclaimed Is The Is Are. The track gallops forth on a clean guitar riff before unfolding into a hypnotic hook offset by...
