Following the band’s stealth announcement through a hotline number serviced to fans by mail last week, DIIV has officially announced that their new album, ZIRP! is due out on October 30, on Fantasy Recordings. With ZIRP!, DIIV emphatically and ecstatically embrace the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career, which is smashing them together in pursuit of sound that pre-empts any notion that Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield and Ben Newman have ever been playing between worlds.
As for the music, “The Fountain” pairs the sprawl and squall of DIIV records past with a jolting rhythmic guitar section that has arena-filling potential. Throughout the tune, the band is zeroing in on its punchiest, most memorable melodies to date, each new internal hook and tossed-off earworm indicative of a band more than ready to make good on its ability to play in the mainstream. The whole ditty is beautiful and surely, the upcoming album will sound just as good.
ZIRP! Track List
1. The Fountain
2. Kid
3. When The Glow Came For Us
4. Dare Me
5. The Crash
6. Trillions
7. Us Against You
8. Evangelizer
9. Underground
10. My Star
11. Idiot In The Sky
Photo Credit: Stephen Hoffmeister
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