DIIV Announce Fourth Album 'Frog In Boiling Water' With Lead Single Brown Paper Bag
Monday, 19 February 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Shervin Lainez
DIIV have announced their fourth album.
'Frog In Boiling Water' will arrive though Fantasy Records on May 24, following up 2019's 'Deceiver' and 2022's live album 'Live At The Murmrr Theatre'.
The new LP is produced by Chris Coady, while its title is a reference to Daniel Quinn's 1996 novel The Story of B. The Brooklyn band commented:
"If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.
"We understand the metaphor to be one about a slow, sick, and overwhelmingly banal collapse of society under end-stage capitalism, the brutal realities we’ve maybe come to accept as normal. That’s the boiling water and we are the frogs. The album is more or less a collection of snapshots from various angles of our modern condition which we think highlights what this collapse looks like and, more particularly, what it feels like."
DIIV — Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman and Zachary Cole Smith — have also shared a slow, shoegazey new single, Brown Paper Bag. It'll feature on the record alongside their 2023 single Soul-net, which was released exclusively to a bespoke streaming website of the same name, and eight more new tracks.
DIIV will tour Europe in March, with the run including stops in London, Manchester and Dublin. Tickets are on sale now.
'Frog In Boiling Water' tracklist:
1. In Amber
2. Brown Paper Bag
3. Raining on Your Pillow
4. Frog in Boiling Water
5. Everyone Out
6. Reflected
7. Somber the Drums
8. Little Birds
9. Soul-net
10. Fender on the Freeway
DIIV Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue March 12 2024 - LONDON O2 Forum Kentish Town
Wed March 13 2024 - MANCHESTER New Century Hall
Thu March 14 2024 - DUBLIN Vicar Street
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